12th-century Philosopher Quotes

Maimonides

Averroes

Ibn Arabi

Basava

Man knows only these poor mathematical theories about the heavens, and only God knows the real motions of the heavens and their causes.

Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's great) I have decided that the tannic acid in the tea is what tenderizes beef!

There is no city that is truly one other than this city that we [anahnti] are involved in bringing forth.

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort of minute objects.

Robert Grosseteste

Sweet hymns shall be my chant and woven songs,
For Thou art all for which my spirit longs—
To be within the shadow of Thy hand
And all Thy mystery to understand.
The while Thy glory is upon my tongue,
My inmost heart with love of thee is wrung,
So though Thy mighty marvels I proclaim,
'Tis songs of love wherewith I greet Thy name.

Yehuda he-Hasid

Among all the liberal arts, the first is logic, and specifically that part of logic which gives initial instruction about words.... [T]he word "logic" has a broad meaning, and is not restricted exclusively to the science of argumentative reasoning. [It includes] Grammar [which] is "the science of speaking and writing correctly-the starting point of all liberal studies."

John of Salisbury

Consume according to your requirements and contribute the rest to the society through Dasoha.

It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.

Since there is no science which is not some part of philosophy, we should first see, therefore, what philosophy is.

Dominicus Gundissalinus