Ameen Rihani

Writer

1876-11-24 – 1940-09-13

Ameen Rihani was a Lebanese-American writer, intellectual, and political thinker. He wrote in both Arabic and English and is associated with early Arab-American literary history.

Quotes by Ameen Rihani

Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
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Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
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To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.
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I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?
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