In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.
AVICENNAI [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
More Avicenna Quotes
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Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.
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A horse is simply a horse.
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The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
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Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.
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An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
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It is in the nature of water … to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; … it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.
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Width of life is more important than length of life.
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When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is.
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That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
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Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?
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As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
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There are no incurable diseases – only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs – only the lack of knowledge.
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The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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