The Memoirs of Aga Khan Quotes

“In Islam the Faithful believe in Divine justice and are convinced that the solution of the great problem of predestination and free will is to be found in the compromise that God knows what man is going to do, but that man is free to do it or not.”
― Aga Khan, The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time

“It is not possible for me to assess the success or failure of what I have tried to do; final judgment lies elsewhere.”
― Aga Khan, The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time

“In Islam there are no extreme renunciations, no asceticism, no maceration, above all no flagellations to subjugate the body. The healthy human body is the temple in which the flame of the Holy Spirit burns, and thus it deserves the respect of scrupulous cleanliness and personal hygiene.”
― Aga Khan, The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time

“The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.”
― Aga Khan, The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time

“Thus man's soul has never been left without a specially inspired messenger from the soul that sustains, embraces and is the universe.”
― Aga Khan, The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time

“It was difficult to separate what I may call proto-religion from proto-science; they made their journey like two streams, sometimes mingling, sometimes separating, but running side by side.”
― Aga Khan, The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time

“Primitive religious experience and primitive scientific reasoning were linked together in magic, in wizardry. Thus, at one and the same time mankind's experiences in the realm of sensation and his strivings to explain and co-ordinate those experiences in terms of his mind led to the birth of both science and religion.”
― Aga Khan, The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time

“The truth about a man as much as about a country or an institution is better than legend,
myth and falsehood.”
― Aga Khan, The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time