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Said in the 1300s
“We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) said by 1328 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 232
“In losing all, the soul has risen To the pinnacle of the measureless; Because it has renounced all That is not divine, It now holds in its grasp The unimaginable Good In all its abundance, A loss and a gain impossible to describe.”
Jacopone da Todi (1230–1307) said by 1307 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What holds in peace this two-fold world, let this two-fold sentence show Amity to every friend, courtesy to every foe.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He felle dede doun colde as ony stone.”
Robert Mannyng (1275–1338) said by 1338 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thomas Hearne (ed.) Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, as Illustrated and Improv'd by Robert of Brunne (1725) vol. 1, p. 56.
“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
“How can someone have the freedom to choose and the power to act freely, unless he were able to be evil, should he so wish?”
Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) said by 1359 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«گفتهاند آنچنان که باید گفت// از پس مرده بد نشاید گفت»”
امیرخسرو دهلوی (1253–1325) said by 1325 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I trapped my breath in the bellows of my throat, and a lamp blazed up inside, showing me who I really was. I crossed the darkness holding fast to that lamp.”
Lalleshwari (1320–1392) said by 1392 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«که را دیدی تو اندر جمله عالم// که یک دم شادمانی یافت بیغم»”
محمود شبستری (1287–1320) said by 1320 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Betere is liste þene ufel strenðe. for mid liste me mai ihalden þat strengðe ne mai iwalden.”
Layamon (1200–1300) said by 1300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ni rydd farn eithr ar arnawdd, Ni châr yn ei gyfar gawdd. Ni ddeily rhyfel, ni ddilyn, Ni threisia am ei dda ddyn. Ni bydd ry gadarn arnam, Ni yrr hawl gymedrawl gam.”
Iolo Goch (1320–1398) said by 1398 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The devastating raid of South India by Malik Kafur is best summed up in R C Majumdar’s words who characterizes it as being more “spectacular than effective…was par excellence as a predatory raid”.”
Malik Kafur (1250–1316) said by 1316 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Purely philosophical assertions which do not pertain to theology should not be solemnly condemned or forbidden by anyone, because in connection with such [assertions] anyone at all ought to be free to say freely what pleases him.”
William of Ockham (1287–1349) said by 1349 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vol. I, Book 2, Ch. 22, as translated by John Scott (1999)
“In places which are sacked and looted the captives are selected as per royal regulations. Those fit for royal service (alone) are sent to the court.”
Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309–1388) said by 1388 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shams Siraj Afif quoted in Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 10
“The mischievous Pelagians maintain that this sort of grace is not given freely by God but is to be obtained by preceding merits. I myself was once so foolish and empty, when I first applied myself to the study of philosophy, as to be seduced by this error.”
Thomas Bradwardine (1290–1349) said by 1349 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mystery of our union with God affected by the Eucharist, is a union more intimate than the human mind can conceive.”
Johannes Tauler (1300–1361) said by 1361 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«بر خودپسندان سلام مدهید!»”
عبید زاکانی (1301–1371) said by 1371 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Nasir-ud-din] then took him a prisoner to his uncle who treated him with apparent consideration and promised to release him. But when he had extorted from him his wealth, elephants and horses and all his property, he had him killed and flayed; his skin was stuffed with straw and hung up on the wall of Moutrah [Madurai] where I saw it suspended.”
Veera Ballala III (1291–1343) said by 1343 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“坐禪觀舉體無二，抛下萬事，休息諸緣，佛法世法不管，道情世情雙忘，無是非無善惡，何防止之有乎，此是心地無相戒也。”
Keizan (1268–1325) said by 1325 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When an irrational animal like camel dances at the tune of bell, why don't you, being the best of creation, attain absorption and ecstasy in the love of God, or go into rapture by listening the name of the Beloved.”
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) said by 1324 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Niuno dee essere in una medesima cosa avvocato e giudice.”
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. 370.
“Ki divers cunte veut traitier, Diversement deit comencier E parler si rainablement K'il seit pleisibles a la gent.”
Marie de France (1101–1300) said by 1300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God in His infinite grandeur without any quantity and absolutely indivisible, which we call immensity, is necessarily all in every extension or space or place which exists or can be imagined.”
Nicole Oresme (1320–1382) said by 1382 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“«دامن مرد کاهلی چو گرفت// گله از گردش زمانه کند// مطرب از کار چون فروماند// چشم بر گوشه چغانه کند»”
ابن یمین (1286–1368) said by 1368 at the latest wikiquote:fa, CC BY-SA 4.0 source