The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of the Islamic and Western civilizations. - Syed Muhammad Naquib Al Attas The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. - Aharon Appelfeld In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul. - Edward Bach Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. - John Burroughs Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explai...