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Top 30 Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quotes (2025 Update)

Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.”

1. “In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.”

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.”

2. “The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows.”

3. “The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were “fine” or “industrial” or “minor”. It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.”

4. “In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were “fine” or “industrial” or “minor”. It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.”

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.”

5. “Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.”

6. “Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.”

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “To be modern is to destroy nature.”

7. “To be modern is to destroy nature.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.”

8. “The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “At all costs we should avoid considering our love of God to be superior to the love of the other for GodLet us love God and leave it for Him to decide on the intensity and sincerity of our loves, as well as of our differing views of Him.”

9. “At all costs we should avoid considering our love of God to be superior to the love of the other for GodLet us love God and leave it for Him to decide on the intensity and sincerity of our loves, as well as of our differing views of Him.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “Once A. K. Coomaraswamy, the great twentieth-century Indian expert on traditional metaphysics and art, said that in modern society the artist is a special kind of person, while in traditional society every person is a special kind of artist.”

10. “Once A. K. Coomaraswamy, the great twentieth-century Indian expert on traditional metaphysics and art, said that in modern society the artist is a special kind of person, while in traditional society every person is a special kind of artist.”

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “The Arab conquest was not only a matter of military domination. It was not like the Mongol invasion. The Mongols invaded Iran, but Iran did not become Shamanist or Buddhist. Some people say that the Arab invasion was just a military conquest, but this is not so. Rather, it was accompanied by a profound spiritual transformation that took place wherever Muslims went and settled down.”

11. “The Arab conquest was not only a matter of military domination. It was not like the Mongol invasion. The Mongols invaded Iran, but Iran did not become Shamanist or Buddhist. Some people say that the Arab invasion was just a military conquest, but this is not so. Rather, it was accompanied by a profound spiritual transformation that took place wherever Muslims went and settled down.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “All spiritual techniques seek to awaken fallen man from the dream in which he lives : he dreams continuously of individual state of being, and of the many forms through which the external world presents itself to him; he builds for himself a paradise of illusions, so as to forget the absence of God. To recover the vision of the spiritual world, the soul of man must “die” to this dream, this ceaseless flow of images which fallen man regards as normal, everyday state of his consciousness.”

12. “All spiritual techniques seek to awaken fallen man from the dream in which he lives : he dreams continuously of individual state of being, and of the many forms through which the external world presents itself to him; he builds for himself a paradise of illusions, so as to forget the absence of God. To recover the vision of the spiritual world, the soul of man must “die” to this dream, this ceaseless flow of images which fallen man regards as normal, everyday state of his consciousness.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.”

13. “The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “Beauty is at once a royal path to God and an impediment to reaching God if it is taken as a god in itself.”

14. “Beauty is at once a royal path to God and an impediment to reaching God if it is taken as a god in itself.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “The order of the Universe is identified with the Divine Mind, and the scientist is said to be discovering the mind of God in his scientific pursuits. Scientific method itself has been called a Christian method of discovering God’s mind.”

15. “The order of the Universe is identified with the Divine Mind, and the scientist is said to be discovering the mind of God in his scientific pursuits. Scientific method itself has been called a Christian method of discovering God’s mind.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “When man penetrates the mysteries of Nature, the “facts of Nature” become transparent symbols, revealing the “divine energies” and the “angelic” state which fallen man has lost, and which he may recover only for a moment, as when he is enraptured by the beauty of music or of a lovely face. At such moments man forgets his limited self, his individualistic dream, and participates in the cosmic dream, thus becoming freed from the prison of his own carnal soul.”

16. “When man penetrates the mysteries of Nature, the “facts of Nature” become transparent symbols, revealing the “divine energies” and the “angelic” state which fallen man has lost, and which he may recover only for a moment, as when he is enraptured by the beauty of music or of a lovely face. At such moments man forgets his limited self, his individualistic dream, and participates in the cosmic dream, thus becoming freed from the prison of his own carnal soul.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “The idea of writing the history of philosophy as philosophy began with Hegel’s influence in Germany, and then it spread to France and England, and histories of philosophies began to appear everywhere in Europe and America.”

17. “The idea of writing the history of philosophy as philosophy began with Hegel’s influence in Germany, and then it spread to France and England, and histories of philosophies began to appear everywhere in Europe and America.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose bosom modernism first developed, against which it rebelled, and whose tenets it has been challenging through constant battle since the birth of the modern world in the Renaissance.”

18. “The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose bosom modernism first developed, against which it rebelled, and whose tenets it has been challenging through constant battle since the birth of the modern world in the Renaissance.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “I believe that modernism itself is based on an error, an error in the understanding of who man is, an error in under- standing the nature of reality both metacosmic and cosmic. Modernism is based on an enormous deception, which is leading us to perdition and destroying the world.”

19. “I believe that modernism itself is based on an error, an error in the understanding of who man is, an error in under- standing the nature of reality both metacosmic and cosmic. Modernism is based on an enormous deception, which is leading us to perdition and destroying the world.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “Let me also again emphasize that it is only within Islam that Sufism can be practiced. The two have never been separated from each other in their reality and in fact are inwardly one, and certainly they have never been separated for me throughout my life.”

20. “Let me also again emphasize that it is only within Islam that Sufism can be practiced. The two have never been separated from each other in their reality and in fact are inwardly one, and certainly they have never been separated for me throughout my life.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “Tradition looks at a traditional civilization as a tree. The root of the tree is permanent and firm in the ground of revelation, but the branches grow in different seasons and in different directions. Tradition does not deny the fact that if you have a harsh and dry winter, the next spring you have fewer flowers and that if you have a winter with more agreeable conditions, you will have more flowers.”

21. “Tradition looks at a traditional civilization as a tree. The root of the tree is permanent and firm in the ground of revelation, but the branches grow in different seasons and in different directions. Tradition does not deny the fact that if you have a harsh and dry winter, the next spring you have fewer flowers and that if you have a winter with more agreeable conditions, you will have more flowers.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth; and the variation of the night and the day; and the ships that run upon the sea with what benefits mankind; and the water God sends down from the sky whereby He revives the earth after its death, scattering all manner of beast therein; and the shifting of the winds; and the clouds subdued between the sky and the earth are surely signs for a people who understand.”

22. “Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth; and the variation of the night and the day; and the ships that run upon the sea with what benefits mankind; and the water God sends down from the sky whereby He revives the earth after its death, scattering all manner of beast therein; and the shifting of the winds; and the clouds subdued between the sky and the earth are surely signs for a people who understand.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “The gnostic is Muslim in that his whole being is surrendered to God; he has no separate individual existence of his own. He is like the birds and the flowers in his yielding to the Creator; like them, like all the elements of the cosmos, he reflects the Divine to his own degree. He reflects it actively, however, they passively; his participation is a conscious one.”

23. “The gnostic is Muslim in that his whole being is surrendered to God; he has no separate individual existence of his own. He is like the birds and the flowers in his yielding to the Creator; like them, like all the elements of the cosmos, he reflects the Divine to his own degree. He reflects it actively, however, they passively; his participation is a conscious one.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “Look at yourself; you are the same person since you were born. During these forty years of your life, all the cells of your body have changed, but you are still you, even though you are liv- ing in time and space. So it is with tradition.”

24. “Look at yourself; you are the same person since you were born. During these forty years of your life, all the cells of your body have changed, but you are still you, even though you are liv- ing in time and space. So it is with tradition.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “Because Islam, besides coming at the end of the major cycle of revelations, had had an experience of the different religions of the world before modern times. I have always said that Islam is the only religion that had direct contact with nearly all the major families of religions of the world outside of the matrix of modernism.”

25. “Because Islam, besides coming at the end of the major cycle of revelations, had had an experience of the different religions of the world before modern times. I have always said that Islam is the only religion that had direct contact with nearly all the major families of religions of the world outside of the matrix of modernism.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “It is not true to say that the sun is only incandescent gas, although this is an aspect of its reality. It is also as true to say that the sun is the symbol of the intelligible principle in the Universe and this element is as much an aspect of its ontological reality as the physical features discovered by modem astronomy.”

26. “It is not true to say that the sun is only incandescent gas, although this is an aspect of its reality. It is also as true to say that the sun is the symbol of the intelligible principle in the Universe and this element is as much an aspect of its ontological reality as the physical features discovered by modem astronomy.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “The world is order or cosmos rather than chaos, one that is alive as an organism and at the same time governed by law.”

27. “The world is order or cosmos rather than chaos, one that is alive as an organism and at the same time governed by law.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “A traditional Muslim would see in the bleakness and ugliness of modern industrial society and the ambiance it creates an outward reflection of the darkness within the souls of men who have created this order and who live in it.”

28. “A traditional Muslim would see in the bleakness and ugliness of modern industrial society and the ambiance it creates an outward reflection of the darkness within the souls of men who have created this order and who live in it.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “Each decade absolutizes its own fashions of thought and action without the least pause and consideration of the fact that a decade later those very fashions and ideas will be buried in the dustbin of history as one turns to a new decade.”

29. “Each decade absolutizes its own fashions of thought and action without the least pause and consideration of the fact that a decade later those very fashions and ideas will be buried in the dustbin of history as one turns to a new decade.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “Now this process, which requires death to our “selves” and the piercing of the walls of our ego to penetrate into our heart, is not possible without the spiritual master, who already knows what it means to be fully human and who has realized this knowledge himself or herself through journeying across the mountains and valleys of microcosmic existence to reach the One.”

30. “Now this process, which requires death to our “selves” and the piercing of the walls of our ego to penetrate into our heart, is not possible without the spiritual master, who already knows what it means to be fully human and who has realized this knowledge himself or herself through journeying across the mountains and valleys of microcosmic existence to reach the One.”

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Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quote: “And what ails you that you fight not in the way of God, and for the weak and oppressed – men, women, and children – who cry out, “Our Lord! Bring us forth from this town whose people are oppressors, and appoint for us from Thee a protector, and appoint for us from Thee a helper.”

31. “And what ails you that you fight not in the way of God, and for the weak and oppressed – men, women, and children – who cry out, “Our Lord! Bring us forth from this town whose people are oppressors, and appoint for us from Thee a protector, and appoint for us from Thee a helper.”

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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