Al-Farabi Quotes

Syria, Philosopher
January 10, 872 – December, 14, 950.

Al-Farabi was a renowned philosopher and jurist who wrote in the fields of political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and logic. He was also a scientist, cosmologist, mathematician and music scholar.

Also known as Jurist

To accept something on mere presumption and, likewise, to fail to investigate it may cover over, blind, and lead astray.

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Widely referred to as “the second teacher,” that is, second after Aristotle, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ṭarkhān Ibn Awzalagh al-Fārābī (Alfarabi) is generally heralded as having founded political philosophy within the Islamic cultural tradition.

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An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.

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- Art
- Wisdom
- Philosophy
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts

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- City
- Justice
A man becomes a person thanks to the intellect.

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- Man
- Person
- Intellect
A definition of philosophy and her sense consists in her assignment that it is a science about the being as a being.

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- Science
- Philosophy
- Being
If boy would not fall in love, girl is not worthy of love.

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- Love
- Girl
- Boy
We can achieve happiness only then when we have a beauty; and we have a beauty thanks to philosophy. The truth is that only because of philosophy we can achieve happiness.

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Philosophy precedes a religion in the time.

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- Time
- Religion
- Philosophy
Alfarabi first studied Islamic jurisprudence and music in Bukhara, then moved to Marv, where he began to study logic with a Nestorian Christian monk, Yūḥannā Ibn Haylān.

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- Logic
- Studied