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“Dilexi iustitiam et odi iniquitatem; propterea morior in exilio.”
Pope Gregory VII (1020–1085) said by 1085 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last words, as quoted in Joseph Priestley A General History of the Christian Church, vol. 1 (1802), p. 361
“But even when the Muslim position was not that strong, say, during Mahmud’s son Ibrahim’s campaign in Hindustan when “a fierce struggle ensued, but Ibrahim at length gained victory, and slew many of them. Those who escaped fled into the jungles. Nearly 100,000 of their women and children were taken prisoners…”
Ibrahim of Ghazna (1032–1099) said by 1099 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 3 quoting Maulana Ahmad, Tarikh-i-Alfi, E.D., V, 163; Farishtah, I, 49.
“The first nation (to have cultivated science) is India. This is a powerful nation having a large population, and a rich kingdom (possession). India is known for the wisdom of its people. Over many centuries, all the kings of the past have recognized the ability of the Indians in all the branches of knowledge.”
Said al-Andalusi (1029–1070) said by 1070 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Great shame it is to deem of high degree Thyself, or over others rackon thee. Strive to be like the pupil of thine eye— To see all else, but not thyself to see.”
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006–1089) said by 1089 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Merie sungen the muneches binnen Ely Tha Cnut Ching rew there by: Roweth, cnihtes, noer the lant, And here we thes muneches saeng.”
Cnut (994–1035) said by 1035 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cnut is said to have composed this song on hearing the music of Ely Abbey, as he was sailing by in a boat. This one verse of that song has been preserved by a monk of Ely in the Historia Eliensis (c. 1166). Reported in …
“O seeker, never think ya hath gained illumination, until for seventy years successively you experience that whilst standing in prayers in Khurasan, you are offering obeisances and bowing in Makkah, and all the treasures of heaven and earth lie bare before your eyes and in spite of all that remain humble and ever in fear lest the Lord many not accept your worship.”
Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani (963–1033) said by 1033 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O fundo de uma agulha cabem dois amigos, mas toda a largura do mundo não basta para dois inimigos".”
Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1020–1070) said by 1070 at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“暗きより暗き道にぞ入りぬべき遙かに照らせ山の端の月”
Izumi Shikibu (976–1033) said by 1033 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Its (Rasayan’s) principles (certain operations, drugs and compound medicines, most of which are taken from plants) restore the health… and give back youth to fading old age… white hair becomes black again, the keenness of the senses is restored as well as the capacity for juvenile agility, and even for co-habitation, and the life of the people in this world is even extended to a long period.”
Al-Biruni (973–1048) said by 1048 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 1
“Through love we're slain, the world's our slaughter house We've no food nor sleep, the world's our cookhouse. We've no desire for paradise, because Our hell's a hundred times loftier than that.”
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) said by 1049 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (980–1037) said by 1037 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I constantly sought knowledge and truth, and it became my belief that for gaining access to the effulgence and closeness to God, there is no better way than that of searching for truth and knowledge.”
Alhazen (965–1039) said by 1039 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“春风又绿江南岸，明月何时照我还？”
Wang Anshi (1021–1086) said by 1086 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“为天地立心，为生民立命，为往圣继绝学，为万世开太平。”
Zhang Zai (1020–1077) said by 1077 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Complete Works of Master Zhang, "Supplements to Reflections on Things at Hand", as quoted in Wang Chunyong's Famous Chinese Sayings Quoted by Wen Jiabao, trans. Chan Sin-wai (Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Co., 2009), p. 10
“Whosoever wishes for happiness in the other life, wisdom in this world, equity in their deeds, having all moral qualities, the practice of all virtues, ought to follow in his deeds the example of Mohammed (PBUH) the Messenger of God.”
Ibn Hazm (994–1064) said by 1064 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“# To know the emptiness of objects is to know emptiness free of appearance and free of coverings. That is the Middle Way from which the "subsequent" or conventional has been purged.”
Marpa Lotsawa (1012–1097) said by 1097 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Madhyamasatka of Metri,The Tibetan and Himalayan Library, Adyar. Library Bulletin vol. 25, pp. 539-49. (1961)
“Be glad," she said, "God brought you to fifty years in your world"— but didn't know there's no division between, as I see it, my days that have passed and Noah's of which I've heard. In the world I have nothing but the hour I'm in, which stands for a moment and then like a cloud moves on.”
Shmuel HaNagid (993–1056) said by 1056 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without mind, without meditation, without analysis, without practice, without the will, let it all be so.”
Tilopa (988–1069) said by 1069 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Six Precepts of Tilopa, quoted in A.S. Kline's Like Water or Clouds - The T’ang Dynasty and the Tao (1947)
“But if I have erred in anything, I gladly come before the teaching authority of Peter.”
Peter Damian (1007–1072) first seen 1059 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter 65:26. To Hildebrand, "archdeacon and immobile pillar of the Apostolic See," Dec. 1059. Op. Cit., p. 39.
“Now there was fought a battle such as men have not seen the like. And the earth was covered with steel, and arrows fell from the clouds like hail, and the ground was torn with hoofs, and blood flowed like water upon the plains. And the dead lay around in masses, and the feet of the horses could not stir because of them.”
Ferdowsi (940–1020) said by 1020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“According to the Sufīs Mārīfat is the attitude of the man who acknowledges God in His Names and Attibutes; who is sincere in his actions, who frees himself from the blameworthy traits of character and from weaknesses and lets his heart dwell with God.”
Al-Qushayri (986–1072) said by 1072 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source