The Dialect to Dive for Pearls: Words of Timeless Virtue

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Abah Aos, (Sufi)

September 1, 1944 – Now Indonesia

“Nu ngariung kabeh lutung nu ngajejer kabeh monyet jelema aing sorangan.”
“Pait sigit pahang hakan kesed teleg.”

Abah Anom (Sufi)

January 1, 1915 – September 5, 2011 Indonesia

“Ciwit sorangan, batur sina milu nyengir.”
“Nu ngarana pasrah teh lain badan mendekong hate nukang.”
“Rasa resep bisa timbul alatan ditumanan.”

Abah Sepuh (Sufi)

1836 – January 25, 1956 Indonesia

“Kudu asih ka jalma nu mikangewa ka maneh.”

Abdul Qadir al-Jailani (The Founder of The Qadiriyya Tariqa, Preacher, Orator, Ascetic, Mystic, Sayyid, Faqīh, Theologian)

March 17, 1078 – February 1166 Iran – Iraq

“Listen to your heart and not your ego.”
“Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord.”
“Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.”
“Do not become the candle that gives light to others but itself remains in darkness.”

Al-Farabi (Philosopher, Jurist)

872 AD – 950 AD Syria

“A man becomes a person thanks to the intellect.”
“Don’t cry when a good person died. Cry for the society which lost him.”
“The greatest of virtues is science.”
“Long speaking people need to be listened to short.”

Al-Ghazali (Philosophers, Theologians, Jurists, Mystics)

1058 – December 19, 1111, Iran

“An honorable person won’t tell people how great they are, people will experience their greatness just by being with them.”
“The final purpose of self-discipline is to find one’s heart constantly in the presence of God.”
“The real friend is the one who, when you ask him to follow you, doesn’t ask where?”
“Whosoever complains of the bad character of another man has revealed the badness of his own character.”

Aristotle (Philosopher)

June 19, 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC Greece

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
“The law is reason, free from passion.”

Baha-ud-Din Naqshband (The Founder of the Naqshbandi Tariqa)

18 Maret 1318 – 1389 Uzbekistan

“Divine mysteries are revealed to the auliya Allah, but such mysteries are not disclosed without permission. It is said that, he who has something, conceals it and he who has nothing, publicises it.”
“Phenomenon (majaz) is a bridge to the Real. It entails all kinds of worship, whether external or internal, of acts or speech, are unreal (majaz) or metaphorical. The wayfarer cannot achieves the Reality (haqiqat) unless he transcends all of them.”
“In His worship, we need the body and in servitude (ubudiyyat), the body must be alleviated. No act will yield any result as long as egotism (selfhood) persists.”
“Reality in the true sense is attainable after annihilation (fana). As long as creature hood (Bashariat) overwhelms, it cannot be achieved.”

Edmund Husserl (Philosopher)

April 8, 1859 – April 27, 1938 Germany

“Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.”
“Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.”
“To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.”

Emanuel Swedenborg (Scientist, Philosopher, Mystic)

January 29, 1688 – March 29, 1772 Sweden – United Kingdom

“Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.”
“True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.”

Erasmus of Rotterdam (Philosopher, Humanist)

October 28, 1466 – July 12, 1536 Switzerland

“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
“No one respects a talent that is concealed.”
“To know nothing is the happiest life.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (Philosopher, Cultural Critic, Composer, Poet, Philologist)

October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900 Germany

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

George Berkeley (Philosopher)

March 12, 1685 – January 14, 1753 Ireland – United Kingdom

“He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.”

Heraclitus (Philosopher)

Selçuk, Turkey

“All is flux, nothing stays still.”
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Poet, Philosopher)

July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 United States

“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

Ibnu ʿArabi (Scholar, Mystic, Poet, Philosopher)

July 26, 1165 – November 16, 1240 Spain – Syria

“In one sense the Reality is creatures; in another sense, It is not. … Whether you assert that It is undivided or divided, the Self is alone. The manifold [universe] exists and yet it does not exist.”
“Nothing but the Reality is; there is no separate being, no arriving and no being far away. This is seen in true vision; when I experienced it, I saw nothing but Him.”
“When my Beloved appears, with what eye do I see Him? With His eye not with mine; for no one sees Him except Himself.”
“Such knowledge can only be had by actual experience, nor can the reason of man define it, or arrive at any cognizance of it by deduction, just as one cannot, without experience, know the taste of honey, the bitterness of patience, the bliss of sexual union, love, passion, or desire.

Immanuel Kant (Philosopher)

April 22, 1724 – February 12, 1804 Germany

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Philosopher, Writer, Composer)

June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778 Switzerland – France

“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.”
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”

John Locke (Philosopher, Physician)

August 29, 1632 – October 28, 1704 United Kingdom

“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
“What worries you, masters you.”

Justus Lipsius (Philologist, Philosopher, Humanist)

October 18, 1547 – March 23, 1606 Belgium

“He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate, is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.”

Kahlil Gibran (Writer, Poet, Visual Artist)

January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931 Lebanon – United States

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness.”
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

Lao Tzu (Philosopher, Writer)

601 BC – Chinese

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

Niccolò Machiavelli (Diplomat, Politician, Historian, Philosopher, Writer, Playwright, Poet)

May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527 Italy

“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
“Politics have no relation to morals.”

Plato (Philosopher)

May 21, 429 BC – Greece

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
“Never discourage anyone… who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet)

May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882 United States

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

Rumi (Poet, Faqih, Theologian, Sufi Mystic)

September 30, 1207 – December 17, 1273 Afghanistan – Turkey

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”

Seneca (Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist, Satirist)

– April 12, 65 AD Spain – Italy

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

Socrates (Philosopher)

– 399 BC Alopece – Classical Athens

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
“One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.”
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”

Søren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, Social Critic, Religious author)

May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855 Denmark

“Once you label me you negate me.”
“Don’t forget to love yourself.”

Voltaire (Writer, Historian, Philosopher)

November 21, 1694 – May 30, 1778 France

“I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”
“The best is the enemy of the good.”

Walt Whitman (Poet, Essayist, Journalist)

May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892 United States

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
“Be curious, not judgmental.”

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