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Avicenna

philosopher, poet, astronomer, physician, music theorist, physicist, mathematician, chemist, ethicist, Islamic jurist, writer, polymath

979  – 1037

Ibn Sina, commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.

All Quotes by Avicenna

“Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.”
— Avicenna
“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”
— Avicenna
“Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.”
— Avicenna
“An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.”
— Avicenna
“God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.”
— Avicenna
“I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.”
— Avicenna
“Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.”
— Avicenna
“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.”
— Avicenna
“Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.”
— Avicenna