Averroes Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.”
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“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.”
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“Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.”
-- AverroesSource : Tahafut at-tahafut (ca. 1180)
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“Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.”
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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.”
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Source : Adin Ballou (1848). “Christian non-resistance, in all its important bearings, illustrated and defended”, p.87
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Source : "The Eichmann Memoir" by James Noxon, The Personalist, Cover image Volume 42, Issue 3, onlinelibrary.wiley.com. July 1961.
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“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”
Source : Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation
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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.
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“Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.”
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“Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.”
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