The Quest for Meaning Quotes

“Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Quest For Meaning

“We have to watch the world, and watch ourselves, with the humility of those who know, in the very depths of their being, that learning to become human is a process that never ends.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Quest For Meaning

“The old antiques dealer whispers to him that the secret of freedom and happiness lies in self-control and in a marriage between knowledge, will and power.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism

“The quest for meaning, which is always begun again by every human intellect, is to human consciousness what a fingerprint is to the body: shared by all, and unique to every individual. A universal singularity.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Quest For Meaning

“we have to go forth in order to come back, plunge into time in order to be born anew, and roam the world in order to get back to ourselves at last.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Quest For Meaning

“From Hinduism to the monotheisms through to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the common message is that we are all, naturally and potentially, inclined to reject the other, and to be intolerant and racist. Left to our own devices and our own emotions, we can be deaf, blind, dogmatic, closed and xenophobic: we are not born open-minded, respectful and pluralist. We become so through personal effort, education, self-mastery and knowledge.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism

“There can be no universal without diversity: the quest for the ultimate commonality would be pointless if we did not recognize the initial differences that explain just why we have to go in search of the universal.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Quest For Meaning

“...faith must recognize the autonomy of reason and its ability to produce a rational, secular ethics. By the same criterion, reason must accept that it is legitimate for the heart, consciousness and faith to believe in an order and ends thar exist prior to its observation, discoveries and hypotheses. Once the distinction between the realms of faith and reason, and religion and science, has been accepted, it is therefore futile to debate, and still less to dispute, the hierarchy of first truths or the nature of the authority granted to their methods and their references.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism