We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Bio: Yāqūt ibn-'Abdullah al-Rūmī al-Hamawī was an Arab biographer and geographer of Greek origin, renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world.
