
Farai'd al-Kalam li'l-Khulafa' al-Kiram, p. 269
The Good Advocate.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
Farai'd al-Kalam li'l-Khulafa' al-Kiram, p. 269
“Their cause I plead,—plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.”
Prologue on Quitting the Stage in 1776. Compare: "I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
“The ignorant (one) is the captive of his tongue.”
Misnad al-Imām al-Hādī, p. 304.
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
Source: What is Man? (1938), p. 178
Context: Man must be free of it all, of his bad conscience and of the bad salvation from this conscience in order to become in truth the way. Now, he no longer promises others the fulfillment of his duties, but promises himself the fulfillment of man.
“His conscience must have gotten tired of nagging him and delivered an ultimatum.”
Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 10 (p. 104)
Statement as UK prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials (1945), as quoted in The Nuremberg Trials (1983) by Ann Tusa and John Tusa, ISBN 0815412622