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Said in the 1200s
“Be·l saupra plus cobert far! Mas non a chans pretz enter, Can tuch no·n son parsoner.”
Giraut de Bornelh (1138–1215) said by 1215 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A penas sai comensar", line 9; translation from Alan R. Press Anthology of Troubadour Lyric Poetry (1971) p. 129.
“...the Sultan Jalaldin - valorous and brave, courageous and fearless like some immaterial being, superb, strong and an excellent fighter ..." 13th century Georgian Royal Annals.”
Jalal al-Din Mangburni (1199–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chronicle of Hundred Years ([online text|https://archive.org/details/kartliscxovreba_201409/mode/2up]) Translated by Georgian National Academy of Sciences. Tbilisi. 2014. p.320
“Reason in man is rather like God in the world.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) first seen 1267 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Opuscule II, De Regno (On Kingship, c. 1267)
“It is true that Balban also made detailed enquiries about the families of all his officers. He refused to grant audience to a low-born officer (Amir-i-Bazariyan) for “granting him an interview would reduce the status of the king in the eyes of the common people and diminish the prestige of the throne”.”
Ghiyas ud din Balban (1201–1287) said by 1287 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lal, K. S. (1990). Indian muslims: Who are they.
“Like as my ancestors, so did my father Yusuf, son of Zaki Muwajjad, early depart hence. Yet what boots it to quarrel with destiny? Fate spoke, and complaints must be hushed. Yet whose father died not? When I saw him depart to his fathers, I tore his image out of my heart. Whatever has happened to me, bitter or sweet, all I have done is to resign myself.”
Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1214) said by 1214 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit.”
Maimonides (1135–1204) said by 1204 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lord, give it not to me to Supplicate favours at another's door; Should such be Thy will, Take then life from this body.”
Baba Farid (1175–1265) said by 1265 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Liut unde lant diu möhten mit genâden sîn wan zwei vil kleiniu wortelîn "min" unde "din".”
Gottfried von Strassburg (1180–1215) said by 1215 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Liut unde lant diu möhten mit genâden sîn", line 1. Text and translation from Frederick Goldin (trans.) German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages (New York: Anchor Books, 1973) pp. 142–143.
“Come posso osare di portare una corona così splendida davanti a un re con in capo una corona di spine?”
Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Gigi Cappa Bava, Stefano Jacomuzzi, Del come riconoscere i Santi, SEI, Torino, 1989, p. 219. ISBN 88-05-05872-6 (in Italian).
Also quoted by: Elisabetta d'Ungheria (it)
“As Cain was a wanderer and an outcast, not to be killed by anyone but marked with the sign of fear on his forehead, so the Jews ... against whom the voice of the blood of Christ cries out ... although they are not to be killed they must always be dispersed as wanderers upon the face of the earth.”
Pope Innocent III (1160–1216) said by 1216 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Migne, Patrologia, CCXV, 1291. See The Talmud Unmasked by J. B. Pranaitis, p. 89
“This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing.”
Albertus Magnus (1200–1280) said by 1280 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Albertus Magnus in: Anne Jackson Fremantle (1962) The Great Ages of Western Philosophy : The Age of Belief : The Medieval Philosophers
“Once our false thinking has completely ceasedThere is neither start nor conclusion, beginning nor endIn the oneness of Buddha and sentient beingsSay Namu-amida-butsu.”
Ippen (1239–1289) said by 1289 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mix together saltpetre, luru vopo vir con utriet [powdered charcoal], and sulphur, and you will make thunder and lightning, if you know the method of mixing them.”
Roger Bacon (1220–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae et de Nullitate Magise, Ch. 11, in a reference to Bacon's knowledge of making gunpowder, as quoted by Thomas Thomson, The History of Chemistry (1830) Vol. 1, p. 36.
“Muhammad Kasim, ascertaining that large offerings were made to the idol, and wishing to add to his resources by those means, left it uninjured, but in order to show his horror of Indian superstition, he attached a piece of cow's flesh to its neck, by which he was able to gratify his avarice and malignity at the same time.”
Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203–1283) said by 1283 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Multan (Punjab). Zakariya bin Muhammad (al-Kazwini): Ãsaru’l-Bilad in Elliot and Dowson, Vol. I : Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. pp. 470.
“Femina consilio prudens, pia, prole beata, Auxit amicitiis, auxit honore virum.”
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124–1204) said by 1204 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inscription on her tomb in . Walter Lovell, "Queen Eleanor's Crosses", Archaeological Journal, vol. 49, no. 1 (1892), pp. 38–9
“Christ’s death on the Cross should live in our thoughts and imagination, for frequent thought on the Passion of Christ keeps aflame and brings to intense heat the fires of earnest piety.”
Bonaventure (1221–1274) said by 1274 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People respond to these disasters in terms of their own experience. Unless the disaster has struck them personally, their circumstances, their environment, it is dismissed as a superficial thing.”
Kamo no Chōmei (1155–1216) said by 1216 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Communion with God is conferred after the dervish has become alien to all else.”
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Chi vive nel fango, vede necessariamente solo fango; mentre non è possibile che l'occhio fisso al cielo non comprenda le realtà celesti.”
Thomas of Celano (1190–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«ما دام لسانك يذوق الحرام، فلا تطمع أن تذوق من الحكم والمعارف شيئاً».”
إبراهيم الدسوقي (1255–1296) said by 1296 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just as the light of the sun irradiates the organ of vision and things visible, enabling the former to see and the latter to be seen, so too the irradiation of a spiritual light brings the mind into relation with that which is intelligible.”
Robert Grosseteste (1168–1253) said by 1253 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the great way of going beyond, no endeavor is complete without being one with myriad things. This is ocean mudra samadhi.”
Dōgen (1200–1253) said by 1253 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Erring, I wandered in the wilderness, In passion's grave nigh sinking, powerless; Now deeply I repent, in sore distress, That I kept not the statutes of the King!”
Ramban (1194–1270) said by 1270 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you oppose the shaykh, it's like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel? He says, So my master will suffer loss.”
Shams Tabrizi (1185–1248) said by 1248 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source