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Mulla Sadra Quotes on Mind

Mulla Sadra was a Persian Shia Islamic philosopher and the most important figure of the Iranian School of Isfahan. This page collects quotes attributed to Mulla Sadra on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Mulla Sadra:

    “Existence is the only reality; quiddity is an abstraction of the mind.”

  • Attributed to Mulla Sadra:

    “The soul is corporeal in its origination but spiritual in its subsistence.”

  • Attributed to Mulla Sadra:

    “Knowledge of the soul is the key to the knowledge of the Lord.”

  • Attributed to Mulla Sadra:

    “The intelligible world is in the soul, and the soul is in the intelligible world.”