Al-Farabi Quotes

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

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

  

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  • Investigate
  • Presumption
  • Astray

• Philosophy precedes a religion in the time.

  

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  • Time
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• 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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  • Happiness
  • Beauty
  • Philosophy

• If boy would not fall in love, girl is not worthy of love.

  

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  • Love
  • Girl
  • Boy

• 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

• 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

• 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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• 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

• A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts

  

  Al-Farabi
  • City
  • Justice