Alpharabius Quotes
He was a muslim schoolar, lived between ninth and tenth century and worked in the Turkistan, Baghdad, Damascus, Egypt and Aleppo. Also called as Al-Farabi, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṭarkhan ibn Awzalagh (or Uzlugh), Abu Naṣr al-Farabi, Alfarabius and Avennasar. He knew Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Syriac and Greek. He studied on political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and logic. Also worked as judge, scientist, cosmologist, mathematician, medicine, natural history, and music scholar.
His aim was to reconcile Aristotle’s ideas with Islam Religion. He has introduced rational thinking and philosophy into the Islamic world, established political philosophy.
In the golden Ages of Islam, became known as “The second master” after Aristotle by East and West World. Because he translated Greek Texts and and succeed to develop these thoughts, somehow never seen after Aristotle.
According to him , the societies have to govern by a philosopher ruler.
He provided the protection of the information in ancient times and developed them. He laid the foundations for the Renaissance.
His Quotes:
- A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.
- To accept something on mere presumption and, likewise, to fail to investigate it may cover over, blind, and lead astray
- An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
- The greatest of virtues is science.
- Philosophy precedes a religion in the time.
- State which established by love, continues with justice.
- A man becomes a person thanks to the intellect.
- Don’t cry when a good person died. Cry for the society which lost him.
- A definition of philosophy and her sense consists in her assignment that it is a science about the being as a being.
- Long speaking people need to be listened to short.
- Society coheres with love, lives with justice and survives with honest work.
- He who speaks well does not hear bad words from anyone.
