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“Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) said by 1328 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ἡ δόξα ἐκείνου ποὺ κινάει τὰ πάντα περνάει καὶ λάμπει μὲς τὴν οἰκουμένη περσὰ σὲ μιά, πιὸ λίγο σ' ἄλλη μπάντα.”
Δάντης Αλιγκέρι (1265–1321) said by 1321 at the latest wikiquote:el, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hawddamor, glwysgor glasgoed, Fis Mai haf, canys mau hoed. Cadarn farchog serchog sâl, Cadwynwyrdd feistr coed anial; Cyfaill cariad ac adar, Cof y serchogion a'u câr; Cennad nawugain cynnadl, Caredig urddedig ddadl.”
Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320–1380) said by 1380 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mis Mai a Mis Ionawr" (To May and January), line 1; translation from Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (ed. and trans.) A Celtic Miscellany (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1951] 1975) p. 75.
“Our Lady said to Bridget: "To reach the heart of God there are two paths: the first is the humility of sincere contrition, which leads and introduces man into the heart of God and into spiritual conversations. The second is the consideration of the Passion of my Son, who overcomes the insensitivity of the human heart and makes it run with joy towards the heart of God ("Book VI, 101"). (p. 60)”
Bridget of Sweden (1303–1373) said by 1373 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Near the eastern gate of the mosque lie two very big idols of copper connected together by stones. Every one who comes in and goes out of the mosque treads over them. On the site of this mosque was a budkhānā that is an idol-house. After the conquest of Delhi it was turned into a mosque.”
Ibn Battuta (1304–1368) said by 1368 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter III (tr. Mahdi Hussain, 1976, p. 27)
“Porro subesse Romano Pontifici omni humanae creaturae declaramus dicimus, definimus et pronunciamus omnino esse de necessitate salutis.”
Pope Boniface VIII (1235–1303) said by 1303 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And ich wulle uaren to Aualun to uairest alre maidene. to Argante þere quene aluen swiðe sceone. & heo scal mine wunden makien alle isunde. al hal me makien mid haleweiye drenchen. And seoðe ich cumen wulle. to mine kineriche. and wunien mid Brutten mid muchelere wunne.”
Layamon (1200–1300) said by 1300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Brewesters and baksters, bochiers and cokes – For thise are men on this molde that moost harm wercheth To the povere peple”
William Langland (1332–1386) said by 1386 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Within the bounds of the four seas, all men are brothers.”
Shi Nai'an (1290–1372) said by 1372 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On achieving their desired end Human powers cease to function, And the soul sees that what it thought was right Was wrong. A new exchange occurs At that point where all light disappears; A new and unsought state is needed: The soul has what it did not love, And is stripped of all it possessed, no matter how dear.”
Jacopone da Todi (1230–1307) said by 1307 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ulugh Khan invaded Gujarat. He sacked the whole country. He pursued the Rai upto Somnath. He destroyed the temple of Somnath which was the principal place of worship for the Hindus and great Rais since ancient times. He constructed a mosque on the site and returned to Delhi.”
Ulugh Khan (1201–1315) said by 1315 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Somnath (Gujarat) . Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi, Translated from the Hindi version by S.A.A. Rizvi included in Khalji Kalina Bharata, Aligarh, 1955, p. 223. In Goel, S.R. Hindu Temples - What Happened to them
Also quoted by: Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi
“Wash from the dross of life thy hands as the Path’s men of old And, winning love’s alchemic power, transmute thyself to gold.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The beauty of worldly allurements makes it lovers so much oblivious that they forget the passage of temporal as well as celestial worlds. They fail to understand the challenge before them.”
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Then in a single campaign Ranthambhor was conquered and] ‘ by the decree of God the land of infidelity became the land of Islam’. [In Amir Khusrau’s words,] ‘ When the sky-rubbing canopy of the Shadow of God cast its shade over the hill of Ranthambhor, the conqueror of the world, like the sun, stood over the unfortunate in his heat, and cast the days of their lives into decline.’”
Amir Khusrow (1253–1325) said by 1325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Amir Khusrow, Khazainu’l-Futuh. Quoted from Peter Hardy - Historians of medieval India_ studies in Indo-Muslim historical writing. (1960) p 79ff
“By prayer I mean not merely prayer from the mouth, but of the mind and heart, of all the powers of the soul and senses of the body. This is the prayer prayed by the soul who wills and desires to find this divine light, studying, meditating and reading without cease in the Book and the more-than-a-book of Life. This Book of Life is the entire life of Christ while he lived as a mortal on earth.”
Angela of Foligno (1248–1309) said by 1309 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Sayyid Ali Hamdani built his khanqah on the site of] ‘a small temple which was demolished... the credit of wiping out the vestiges of infidelity and heresy from the mirror of the conscience of the dwellers of these lands [goes to Sayyid Muhammad].”
Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani (1314–1385) said by 1385 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Baharistan-i-shahi. Pundit KN (1991) A Chronicle of Medieval Kashmir, (Translation), Firma KLM Pvt Ltd, Calcutta, p. 35-7 , as quoted in Khan, M. A. (2011). Islamic Jihad: A legacy of forced conversion, imperialism and …
“Frustra fit per plura, quod potest fieri per pauciora.”
William of Ockham (1287–1349) said by 1349 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Summa Totius Logicae, i. 12, cited in "Ockham's Razor" by Paul Newall at Galilean Library (25 June 2005)
“Le cose mal fatte e di gran tempo passate son più agevoli a riprendere che ad emendare.”
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) said by 1375 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be steadfast and never rest content until you have obtained the now of eternity as your present possession in this life, so far as this is possible to human infirmity.”
Henry Suso (1295–1366) said by 1366 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Gerald Vann, The Divine Pity (1945). London: Fontana Books, 1956, p. 25
“Principio d’ammendamento è conoscere lo fallo.”
Bartholomew of San Concordio (1262–1347) said by 1347 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 396.
“Thai eyt it with full gud will That soucht na nother sals thar-till Bot appetyt.”
John Barbour (1316–1395) said by 1395 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can.”
William Wallace (1270–1305) first seen 1298 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement before the Battle of Falkirk (21 July 1298); as quoted in The Story of England (1909) by Samuel B. Harding
“Muhammad Tughlaq always preferred foreign Muslims to Indians for appointment as officers. The rebellion of Ain-ul-mulk Multani (1339) during his reign was a symptom of the resentment felt by the India-born nobles against this policy of prejudice.... Foreign nobles looked down upon Indian Muslim nobles, and considered them as ‘lowborn’, although not all foreign Muslims were of high lineage.”
Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290–1351) said by 1351 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 5