Extended Quotes
Refresh your minds with marvels of wisdom because minds too get tired as your bodies do. — Hazrat Ali
Click on a theme from the list below to see all quotes in the category (they appear below the category list). Note that quotes may appear in more than one theme. Click on the “All Quotes (Chronologically)” category below to view all quotes; newest quotes appear first.
Each quote is also available in an attractive PDF format for posting on jamatkhana notice boards or as teaching aids, seminar handouts, discussion topics, general references, etc.
Also see our attractive, one page thematic charts which provide selected quotes for easy-to-digest synopses of some His Highness the Aga Khan’s key insights and advices, theme by theme.
- NanoWisdoms' thematic chart on cultural homogenisation ·· PDF
- 2013.03.10 - Excerpt: His Highness the Aga Khan on English: the 'predominant global language of knowledge' and 'of global connection' ·· PDF
- 2013.03.05 - Excerpt: His Highness the Aga Khan on the 'deconstruction of the cultural inheritance' ·· PDF
- 2013.02.11 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on tradition and modernity in Islamic architecture - Of "bogus orientalism" & "alien models" ·· PDF
- 2013.01.13 - Excerpts: Their Highnesses the Aga Khans III and IV on Islam's and the Qur'an's assent of freedom of individual interpretation ·· PDF
- 2013.01.04 - Excerpts: His Highness the Aga Khan on balancing the global and the local: the hazard of a superficial, homogenised mega-culture ·· PDF
- 2012.07.24 - Excerpts - His Highness the Aga Khan's cautionary notes on Western values ·· PDF
- 2012.06.14 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on the responsibility of all decision makers to aspire contemporary Islamic architecture ·· PDF
- 2012.03.20 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on cultural homogenisation, pluralism and peace ·· PDF
- 2012.02.22 - Excerpt - His Highness the Aga Khan on the media and the Creative Encounter ·· PDF
- 2012.02.18 - Excerpts - His Highness the Aga Khan on interpreting the Qur'an ·· PDF
