Averroes Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.”
-- Averroes

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“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.”
-- Averroes

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“Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.”
-- Averroes

Source : Tahafut at-tahafut (ca. 1180)

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“Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.”
-- Averroes

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“All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing.”
-- Averroes

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“But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.”

Source : Adin Ballou (1848). “Christian non-resistance, in all its important bearings, illustrated and defended”, p.87

“Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. ... His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.”

Source : "The Eichmann Memoir" by James Noxon, The Personalist, Cover image Volume 42, Issue 3, onlinelibrary.wiley.com. July 1961.

“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”

Source : Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation

“The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

“Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.”

“Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.”

“There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.”

“In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.”

“Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.”

“Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.”