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Said in the 1200s
“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
“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)
“A severe action ensued from dawn to mid-day, when "the army of idolatry and damnation turned its back in flight from the line of battle.... fifty thousand infidels were despatched to hell by the sword... and from the heaps of the slain, the hills and the plains became of one level.”
Hasan Nizami (died 1217) said by 1217 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fere lo sol lo fango tutto ’l giorno; Vil riman, ne il sol perde colore.”
Guido Guinizzelli (1230–1276) said by 1276 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Canzone. (Poeti del Primo Secolo, Firenze, 1816, p. 92).
“He said The Sufi is the son of the moment.”
Shams Tabrizi (1185–1248) said by 1248 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The chief of Anhilwãra called Bhîm, fled hastily… Yamînu-d daula again started for Somnãt, and on his march he came to several forts in which were many images serving as chamberlains or heralds of Somnãt, and accordingly he (Mahmûd) called them Shaitãn. He killed the people who were in these places, destroyed the fortifications, broke in pieces the idols and continued his march to Somnãt…”
Ibn al-Athir (1160–1233) first seen 1030 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ibn al-Athir The Complete History, Sultãn Mahmûd of Ghazni (AD 997-1030) (Rajasthan and Gujarat) Elliot and Dowson, Vol. II. pp. 469-71
“Though the river's current never fails, the water passing, moment by moment, is never the same. Where the current pools, bubbles form on the surface, bursting and disappearing as others rise to replace them, none lasting long. In this world, people and their dwelling places are like that, always changing.”
Kamo no Chōmei (1155–1216) said by 1216 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Isot ma drüe, Isot m'amie En vus ma mort, en vus ma vie.”
Gottfried von Strassburg (1180–1215) said by 1215 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.”
Maimonides (1135–1204) said by 1204 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ieu sui Arnautz qu'amas l'aura E cas la lebre ab lo bueu E nadi contra suberna.”
Arnaut Daniel (1150–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ab gai so cundet e leri", line 43; translation from Ezra Pound The Spirit of Romance (1910) p. 30.
“Jalaluddin Khalji led an expedition to Ranthambhor in 1291 AD. On the way he destroyed Hindu temples at Jhain. The broken idols were sent to Delhi to be spread before the gates of the Jama Masjid.”
Jalal-ud-Din Khalji (1220–1296) said by 1296 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: `Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni, quoted from Goel, Sita Ram (2001). The story of Islamic imperialism in India. ISBN 9788185990231 Ch. 6
“Thou all Creation art, all we behold, but Thou, The soul within the body lies concealed, And Thou dost hide Thyself within the soul, O soul in soul! Myst'ry in myst'ry hid! Before all wert Thou, and are more than all!”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Lucy M. J. Garnett, Mysticism and Magic in Turkey (1912), p. 49
“Aqua turbida piscosior est.”
Peter of Blois (1120–1210) first seen 1170 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter 50, to Henry, Bishop of Bayeux, 1170, in J. A. Giles (ed.) Petri blesensis bathoniensis archidiaconi opera omnia (Oxonii: J. H. Parker, 1846-7) vol. 1, p. 155; translation from Provérbios Latinos.
“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.”
Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The last request of Christ was that we should love one another as He loved us. But are we obeying Him, dear Brother? The moment we own anything we want to increase our possessions by depriving some one else. And if we are asked to share what we own, we are unwilling to part with it. We are made loveless by our possessions.”
Elizabeth of Hungary (1207–1231) said by 1231 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Schmidt-Pauli (tr. Olga Marx, 1932), p. 139
“...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
“Qu'eu cut c'atretan grans sens Es, qui sap razo gardar, Com los motz entrebeschar.”
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 19; translation from Alan R. Press Anthology of Troubadour Lyric Poetry (1971) p. 129.
“Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: III, 4210-11 (tr. Helminski, 1996)
“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.
“In the year AH 599 (AD 1202), Kutbu-d dîn proceeded to the investment Kãlinjar, on which expedition he was accompanied by the Sãhib-Kirãn, Shamsu-d dîn Altamsh… The temples were converted into mosques and abodes of goodness, and the ejaculations of bead-counters and voices of summoners to prayer ascended to high heaven, and the very name of idolatry was annihilated…”
Qutb al-Din Aibak (1150–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a vacuum which is imagined as infinite there cannot be local differences, both on account of its infinity, and also because of the fact that the vacuum, if it exists, would have no nature but a privation, and therefore it can have no natural differences.”
Robert Grosseteste (1168–1253) said by 1253 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A student asked, “How can a person develop his sincerity and reverence and get rid of his desires?” Zhu Xi responded, “These are the end-points. Sincerity requires getting rid of all sorts of falseness. Reverence requires getting rid of all sorts of laziness. Desires should be blocked.” 13:246”
Zhu Xi (1130–1200) said by 1200 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.”
Nasreddin (1208–1284) said by 1284 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dan Keding, Elder Tales: stories of wisdom and courage from around the world (2008), , p. 151