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“In the Buddha’s teaching, unless you cast away body and life, there can be no realization of benefit.”
Ippen (1239–1289) said by 1289 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“The Cistercians...are wholly strange to the use of flesh. Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon—though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.”
Walter Map (1140–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Distinction 1, Chapter 24 (tr. M. R. James, 1923)
“During his expedition to Gwalior, Iltutmish (1210-36) massacred 7000 persons besides those killed in the battle on both sides. His attacks on Malwa (Vidisha and Ujjain) were met with stiff resistance and were accompanied by great loss of life. He is also credited with killing 12,000 Khokhars (Ghakkars) during Aibak's reign.”
Iltutmish (1192–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 7
“Since the time of my defeat in Hindustan, I have never slumbered in ease, or waked, but in sorrow and anxiety. I have, therefore, determined, with this army, to recover my lost honour from those idolaters, or die in the attempt.”
Muhammad of Ghor (1144–1206) said by 1206 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Elliot and Dowson, The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians, Vol. 2, 174 ff quoted in Sandeep Balakrishna - Invaders and Infidels_ From Sindh to Delhi_ The 500-Year Journey of Islamic Invasions. Bloomsbury …
“Joy! Joy! I triumph! Now no more I know Myself as simply me. I burn with love Unto myself, and bury me in love. The centre is within me and its wonder Lies as a circle everywhere about me. Joy! Joy! No mortal thought can fathom me.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Extract translated by Robert Alfred Vaughan, Hours with the Mystics: A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion, 5th ed. (London: John Slark, 1888), vol. 2, p. 21. Titled "The Triumph of the Soul in Margaret Smi…
“Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.”
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.
“Three and seventy years I've drawn pure water from the fire - Now I become a tiny bug. With a touch of my body I shatter all worlds.”
Ingo (1210–1281) said by 1281 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The seeker's real approach to God means his preoccupation with afflictions appearing on the way to Him. Tribulations in separation from God is to be treated as a boon granted by God to His elect.”
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good lady, I from you and Love receive Sense, knowledge, vigor, heart, good words and song; To you and Love the thanks and praise belong If anything of worth I may achieve, For you have given me this mastery.”
Aimeric de Peguilhan (1170–1228) said by 1228 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world has spilled Love's secret — when could music ever hold its tongue? Every atom babbles the mystery — Listen yourself, for I'm no tattletale!”
Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (1213–1289) said by 1289 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.”
Roger Bacon (1220–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Robert Belle Burke (2002) The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon Part 2. p. 583
“The difference between that which is ascribed to God and that which is ascribed to man is expressed in the words... "And your ways are not my ways." (Is. lv. 8-9)”
Maimonides (1135–1204) said by 1204 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The diligent investigator of natural phenomena can give the causes of all natural effects... by the rules and roots and foundations given from the power of geometry.”
Robert Grosseteste (1168–1253) first seen 1211 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Nature of Places, a continuation of the treatise On Lines, Angles and Figures as quoted by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, "Translation and discussion of the De Iride, a treatise on optics by Robert Grosseteste" arXi…
“In the state of elevation, the mystic may be able to read heavenly books in languages and characters previously unknown to him and learn the heavenly names of things and beings in including his own eternal name which is different from his wordly name.”
Najmuddin Kubra (1145–1221) said by 1221 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sultan Jalal ud-Din, Mangburni, was the eldest son of Sultan Muhammad, and was endowed with great heroism, valour and high talents and accomplishments.”
Jalal al-Din Mangburni (1199–1231) said by 1231 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
“Juliana, although already married to Eulogius, the prefect of Nicomedia, refused to consummate the marriage unless her husband was first baptised. Her father then had her stripped naked and severely beaten, then had her taken to the prefect, who said to her: ‘My sweetest Juliana, why have you mocked me and rejected me in this way?’ (p. 223)”
Jacobus de Voragine (1228–1298) said by 1298 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the beginning I knew meeting could only End in parting, yet I ignored the coming dawn And I gave myself to you.”
Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) said by 1241 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 100 More Poems from the Japanese, 1976,
“The buildings of Nishapur Time had striven to displace And ruin wide from every side had thither its face God willed that men should once again its buildings strive to rise In the reign of Just Abaqa, The Nushirvan of our days Of all the world the lord is he, of all the earth the king Foe-binder, world subduer he, all kingdoms conquering”
Pur-Baha Jami (died 1299) first seen 1265 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Browne, Edward Granville. A History of Persian Literature Under Tartar Dominion, Parts 1265-1502
“Fifty-six years, above Buddhas, Patriarchs, I've stood mid-air. Now I announce my final journey- Daily sun breaks from the eastern ridge.”
Doyu (1201–1256) said by 1256 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: . Encounter with Zen: writings on poetry and Zen, 1981. p. 95.
“Camille and Kabir Helminski, Jewels of Remembrance: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance (1996)”
Rumi (1207–1273) said by 1273 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source