Ibn Sina Quotes

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

“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

“Ich hört' in meiner Bücherei des Nachts
Den Bücherwurm den Schmetterling befragen:
"Ich habe mein Nest in Ibn Sinas Blättern,
Bin in Farabis Manuskript beschlagen -
Den Sinn des Lebens hab' ich nicht verstanden,
Ganz sonnenlos leb' ich in finstern Tagen!"
Wie schön sprach darauf der halbverbrannte Falter:
"Nach diesem Punkt darfst du nicht Bücher fragen:
Nur Fieberglut kann neues Leben bringen,
Nur Fieberflut gibt deinem Leben Schwingen!”
― Muhammad Iqbal