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“بُلينا بقوم يظنون أن الله لم يهد سواهم.”
― ابن سينا

“الوهم نصف الداء ، و الاطمئنان نصف الدواء ، و الصبر أول خطوات الشفاء .”
― ابن سينا

“I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.”
― Avicenna, A Compendiun On The Soul

“المستعد للشيء تكفيه أضعف أسبابه”
― ابن سينا

“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. ”
― AVICENNA

“مسكنات الأوجاع : المشي الطويل و الانشغال بما يُفرح الإنسان”
― ابن سينا

“Absence of understanding does not warrant absence of existence ”
― Ibn Sina

“أشكو إلى الله الزمان فصرفُهُ * أبلى جديد قواي وهو جديدُ

مِحَنٌ إلىًّ توجهتْ فكأنني * قد صرتُ مغناطيس وهي حديدُ”
― ابن سينا

“Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.”
― Avicenna

“I would rather have a short life with width rather than a narrow one with length.”
― Avicenna

“حسبنا ما كُتِب من شروح لمذاهب القدماء، فقد آن لنا أن نضع فلسفة خاصة بنا”
― ابن سينا

“الوهم نصف الداء، والاطمئنان نصف الدواء، والصبر أول خطوات الشفاء.”
― ابن سينا

“احذروا البطنة، فإن أكثر العلل إنما تتولد من فضول الطعام”
― ابن سينا

“برخی از اطبا می گویند: مالیخولیا از جنّیان است.
برای ما در طب فرقی ندارد که از جن باشد یا نه. ما می گوییم: چه از جن باشد یا نباشد، مزاج بیمار سودایی می شود. پس علت قریبه اش وجود سوداست، بگذار علت العلل سودا، جن باشد.”
― Ibn Sina, القانون في الطب

“Time is merely a feature of our memories and expectations.”
― Ibn Sina

“ليسوا وإن نعموا عيشا سوى نعم * وربما نعمت في عيشها النَّعمُ

الواجدون غنى، العادمون نهى * ليس الذي وجدوا مثل الذي عدموا”
― ابن سينا

“ما قرع سمعك فذره في ساعة الإمكان حتى يذودك عنه ساطع البرهان”
― ابن سينا

“At night I would return home, set out a lamp before me, and devote myself to reading and writing. Whenever sleep overcame me or I became conscious of weakening, I would turn aside to drink a cup of wine, so that my strength would return to me. Then I would return to reading. And whenever sleep seized me I would see those very problems in my dream; and many questions became clear to me in my sleep. I continued in this until all of the sciences were deeply rooted within me and I understood them as is humanly possible. Everything which I knew at the time is just as I know it now; I have not added anything to it to this day. Thus I mastered the logical, natural, and mathematical sciences, and I had now reached the science.”
― Avicenna Ibn Sina

“منذ نزلت جوهرة الروح والتصقت بصدفة البدن ...كان الإنسان الذي صاغه الله من ماء الحياة ,وبعد أن تكاملت جوهرة الوجود ... طارت مخلِّفة ً الصدفة وراءها لتقتعد مكانها في دُرة تاج المُلك.”
― ابن سينا

“قد صح عندي بالتواتر ما كان بجوزجان في زماننا من أمر حديد - لعله زنة مائة خمسين منا - نزل من الهواء، فنشب في الأرض، ثم نبا نبوة الكرة، ثم عاد فنشب في الأرض، وسمع له صوت عظيم هائل، فلما تفقدوا أمره، ظفروا به، وحمل إلى والي جوزجان، فحاولوا كسر قطعة منه، فما عملت فيه الآلات إلا بجهد، فراموا عمل سيف منه فتعذر،”
― ابن سينا, كتاب الشفاء: الإلهيات

“لما عظمت فليس مصر واسعي

لما غلا ثمني عدمت المشتري”
― ابن سينا

“دخولي باليقين كما تراه
وكل الشك في أمر الخروج”
― ابن سينا

“المستعد للشىء تكفيه أبسط اسبابه”
― ابن سينا - Ibn Sina

“
غذای روح بود باده رحیق الحق
که رنگ او کند از دور رنگ گل را دق
به رنگ زنگ زداید ز جان اندوهگین
همای گردد اگر جرعه‌ای بنوشد بق
به طعم، تلخ چوپند پدر و لیک مفید
به پیش مبطل، باطل به نزد دانا، حق
می‌از جهالت جهال شد به شرع حرام
چو مه که از سبب منکران دین شد شق
حلال گشته به فتوای عقل بر دانا
حرام گشته به احکام شرع بر احمق
شراب را چه گنه زان که ابلهی نوشد
زبان به هرزه گشاید، دهد ز دست ورق
حلال بر عقلا و حرام بر جهال
که می‌محک بود وخیرو شر از او مشتق
غلام آن می‌صافم کزو رخ خوبان
به یک دو جرعه برآرد هزار گونه عرق
چو بوعلی می‌ناب ار خوری حکیمان
به حق حق که وجودت شود به حق ملحق
”
― Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”
― Avicenna, Psikologi Ibn Sina

“إنَّ قوة الفكر قادرةٌ على إحداث المرض والشفاء منه”
― Avicenna

“When a thing standeth long in salt, it is salt, and if any thing stand in a stinking place, it is made stinking; and if any thing standeth with a bold man, it is made bold, and if it stand with a fearefull man, it is made fearefull.”
― Avicenna

“[1] The first premise is that you should know that in the world as a whole and in its parts, both upper and earthly, there is nothing which forms an exception to the facts that God is the cause of its being and origination and that God has knowledge of it, controls it, and wills its existence; it is all subject to His control, determination, knowledge, and will. This is a general and superficial account, although in these assertions we intend to describe it truly, not as the theologians understand it; and it is possible to produce proofs and demonstrations of that. Thus, if it were not that this world is composed of elements which give rise to good and evil things in it and produce both righteousness and wickedness in its inhabitants , there would have been no completion of an order for the world. For if the world had contained nothing but pure righteousness, it would not have been this world, but another one, and it would necessarily have had a composition different from the present composition; and likewise if it had contained nothing but sheer wickedness, it would not have been this world but another one. But whatever is composed in the present fashion and order contains both righteousness and wickedness.

[2] The second premise is that according to the ancients Rewards is the occurrence of pleasure in the soul corresponding to the extent of its perfection, while Punishment is the occurrence of pain in the soul corresponding to the extent of its deficiency. So the soul's abiding in deficiency is it's 'alienation from God the exalted', and this is the 'curse' 'the penalty', [God's] 'wrath' and 'anger', and pain comes to it from that deficiency; while its perfection is what is meant by [God's] 'satisfaction', with it, its 'closeness' and 'nearness' and 'attachment'. This, then, and nothing else is the meaning of 'Reward' and 'Punishment' according to them.

[3] The third premise is that the resurrection is just the return of human souls to their own world: this is why God the Exalted has said, 'O tranquil soul, return to your Lord, satisfied and satisfactory.'
These are summary statements that need to be supported by their proper demonstrations.”
― İbn Sina, ibn sina's essay on the secret of destiny

“The soul is like a glass lamp, and knowledge
Is light (-giving fire), and the wisdom of God is the oil.
If it is lit, you are alive,
And if it is darkened, you are dead,”
― Ibn Sina (Avicena)

“Science and art leave societies in which they are not respected Avicenna”
― Avicenna, Avicenna About Love