Frithjof Schuon Archive

The Highest Truth is a strong wine;One would like to be at peace with all believers;What the good-willed majority can grasp,However weak it may be, one should let it live.It is difficult to pour out all of wisdom —One should not drown half-wisdom in wine.

To be a human being would have no meaning, Were there not the capacity to know and desireThat which is pure, invisible Reality —The capacity to turn the soul from the animal to the Divine.That a creature should love the Most HighDemonstrates why man exists.

Man’s reason for existence is to be a mirrorOf the Real, the Divine. Nothing takesPrecedence over this; all things are ennobledBy the thought that loves the Most High.In this thinking find thy rest —Thy call to God is better than thyself.

In principle, man is intelligent; he is not an animal.But in fact, he is stupid — the proof:Human history. If one seeks to understand it,One understands nothing — one walks on ice.We do not have the right to regret our humanity —Because we have the choice to be truly...