The higher spiritual and super-animal tendencies of man, if based on a doctrinal and intellectual infrastructure, take the name of faith. Source: Man and Faith | Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari (R)
Man is so idealistic that he often…
Man is so idealistic that he often gives more importance to his creed and ideology than to any other value. He may consider service to others to be of more consequence than his own welfare, and may regard a thorn stuck into the foot of someone else as being stuck into his own foot or…
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Man’s knowledge extends…
Man’s knowledge extends to the events which took place before his birth, and on the other, it extends to other planets and stars. He gets acquainted with his past as well as his future. He discovers his own history and that of the world, which is the history of the earth, the sky, the mountains,…
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Like other animals man…
“Like other animals man also has many wants and desires and in the light of what he knows and understands, he makes efforts to secure and realize them. Man differs from other living beings in that he knows more, understands better and his wants and desires are of a higher level. This characteristic of man…
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Man himself being a kind of animal..
“Man himself being a kind of animal, has many things in common with other animals. At the same time he has many dissimilarities which distinguish him from other animals and make him superior to them.”
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