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He advocates suspension of judgment, with a proper suspicion of "Facts, the idlest of superstitions."
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Finally, although destructive to appearance, he is essentially reconstructive.
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey to unknown lands.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (1885)
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (1885)
Unknown, Incomprehensible, whate'er you choose to call it, call;
But leave it vague as airy space, dark in its darkness mystical.
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line
Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all, the puny all thou callest thine.
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
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