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• “In this brief span this body exists, Clothing and food are of course indispensable; But knowing them to be fruits of former lives, I make no effort at all to obtain them.”

  Ippen (1239–1289) said by 1289 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I fear not the passing of youth if the Beloved desert me not; Youth withers and loses bloom without the sustenance of Love... Saith Farid: Sugar and candy, Sweets and honey, rich milk– All these Lord, are sweet; but nothing to Try devotees so sweet as Thou.”

  Baba Farid (1175–1265) said by 1265 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.”

  Arnaud Amalric (1160–1225) said by 1225 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The ministering Saint, fresh from the poor of Christ.”

  Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Charles Kingsley, The Saint's Tragedy (1848), act 2, sc. 4 (Guta)

• “The being which has absolute existence, which has never been and will never be without existence, is not in need of an agent.”

  Maimonides (1135–1204) said by 1204 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “La modestia infatti è il decoro di tutte le età, testimone di innocenza, indizio di un cuore puro, verga di disciplina, gloria particolare della coscienza, garante della buona reputazione, distintivo della perfetta rettitudine.”

  Thomas of Celano (1190–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Danicam uero regionem giganteo quondam cultu exercitam eximie magnitudinis saxa ueterum bustis ac specubus affixa testantur. Quod si quis ui monstruosa patratum ambigat, quorundam montium excelsa suspiciat dicatque, si callet, quis eorum uerticibus cautes tante granditatis inuexerit.”

  Saxo Grammaticus (1150–1220) said by 1220 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sec. 3, par. 1 (ed. Karsten Friis-Jensen, 2015; tr. Oliver Elton, 1894)

• “Ez ist ein armer trügesite, der vriunden alsô liuget, daz er sich selben triuget.”

  Gottfried von Strassburg (1180–1215) said by 1215 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.”

  Roger Bacon (1220–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Cited by Peter Nicholls (1979) The Encyclopedia of science fiction: an illustrated A to Z. p. 376

• “Ulugh Khan ravaged the whole of the hills with the sword, and penetrated as far as the town of Salmur, in the defiles and fastnesses of the mountains. No king had ever laid hold upon Salmur nor had any Musulman army reached it. He now plundered it, and carried on a devastating warfare. So many of the rebellious Hindus were killed that the numbers cannot be computed or described.”

  Minhaj-i-Siraj (1193–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Tabakat-i Nasiri of Abu ‘Umar Minhaju-d din, ‘Usman ibn Siraju-d din al Juzjani. In The History of India as Told by its own Historians. The Posthumous Papers of the Late Sir H. M. Elliot. John Dowson, ed. 1st ed. 1867. …

• “He marched from it to Ranthanbhor. He first encamped at Jhayan and conquered it. He demolished temples and broke idols. He killed, captured and pillaged…”196”

  Jalal-ud-Din Khalji (1220–1296) first seen 1290 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sultan Jalalu’d-Din Khalji (AD 1290-1296) Jhain (Rajasthan) Zafaru’l-Walih Bi Muzaffar Wa Ãlihi, Zafaru’l Walih Bi Muzaffar Wa Ãlihi, translated into English by M.F. Lokhand­wala, Baroda, 1970 and 1974, Vol. II, 626-8. …

• “Iltutmish did not forget that he was a Muslim conqueror. He showed himself to be very pious, never forgetting to do his five devotional daily….He likewise showed himself totally intolerant vis-à-vis the Hindus who refused to convert, destroying their temples and annihilating Brahmin communities.”

  Iltutmish (1192–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Man reaches the highest point of his knowledge about God when he knows that he knows him not, inasmuch as he knows that that which is God transcends whatsoever he conceives of him.”

  Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) said by 1274 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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.

• “Das Meer, das ich bin, hat sich in seine eigenen Wogen hineinergossen. Seltsames, grenzenloses Meer, das ich bin!" - Diwan-e-Schams, Nr.:1759, zitiert von Frithjof Schuon in "Den Islam verstehen”

  Dschalal ad-Din al-Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ein guter Ruf, der fünfzig Jahre währt, // Wird oft durch eine schlechte Tat entehrt." - Der Rosengarten (Gulistan), 5, Über Liebe und Jugend”

  Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Die sint tœrscher denne beiersch her, unt doch bî manlîcher wer. swer in den zwein landen wirt, gefuoge ein wunder an im birt.”

  Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170–1220) said by 1220 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”

  Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 1372:A1:168 (tr. John Baldock, 2005)

• “Demüthig war Tristan, / Er war züchtig, getreu und mild, / Adliger Sitten ein echtes Bild. / Er war nicht träg, nach Preis zu jagen, / Der Erste war er, ›Ich!‹ zu sagen, / Wenn rings die feige Meute schwieg. / Doch wie er freudig war zum Sieg, / Er war's für seinen König nur." - Tristan und Isolde, Rose und Rebe, Stuttgart 1877, Seite 262”

  Gottfried von Straßburg (1180–1215) said by 1215 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I shall grasp the soul's skirt with my hand and stamp on the world's head with my foot. I shall trample Matter and Space with my horse, beyond all Being I shall utter a great shout, and in that moment when I shall be alone with Him, I shall whisper secrets to all mankind. Since I have neither sign nor name I shall speak only of things unnamed and without sign.”

  Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Translated by Bernard Lewis, Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems (2001), p. 119

• “Wo die Barmherzigkeit und Klugheit ist, da ist nicht Verschwendung noch Täuschung." - Von der Kraft der Tugenden”

  Franz von Assisi (1182–1226) said by 1226 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In the intimacy of the One, Those souls are pure and inwardly naked, without images, without figures, As if liberated from time, uncreated, Freed from their limits in silent latitude”

  Hadewijch (1200–1260) said by 1260 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But I can see it just lying there, on the ground." "That's right: that's its use.”

  Nasreddin (1208–1284) said by 1284 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Idries Shah, The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin (1968), , p. 152

• “The gnostic (arif) attains the station of passionate love of God so that he may experience Godhead or His pure Essence.”

  Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source