عن جرير ، قال : جئت الأعمش يوماً ، فوجدته قاعداً في ناحيةٍ ، وفي الموضع خليجٌ من ماء المطر ، فجاء رجلٌ عليه سواد ، فرأى الأعمش وعليه فروةٌ ، فقال : قم عبرني هذا الخليج ؛ وجذب بيده ، فأقامه ، وركبه ، وقال : ! ( سبحان الذي سخر لنا هذا وما كنا
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“As William Bernstein describes in ‘A Splendid Exchange’, ‘The Arabs, invigorated by their conquests, experienced a cultural renaissance that extended to many fields; the era’s greatest literature, art, mathematics, and astronomy was not found in Rome, Constantinople, or Paris, but in Damascus, Baghdad and Cordova.”
― A Short History of the World
― A Short History of the World
“الإلمام السطحي بالفلسفة قد يقود إلى الإلحاد، أما الإلمام العميق فيقود المرء إلى الإيمان”
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“For more than fifty years, or long before the Wright brothers took up their part, would-be “conquerors of the air” and their strange or childish flying machines, as described in the press, had served as a continuous source of popular comic relief.”
― The Wright Brothers
― The Wright Brothers
“Philosophy comes from the Greek words ‘philo’ and ‘sophia’, meaning ‘love’ and ‘wisdom’, and democracy comes from the words ‘demos’ and ‘kratia’, meaning ‘people’ and ‘rule’.”
― A Short History of the World
― A Short History of the World
“Growing old means seeing others die.”
― Out of Sorts
― Out of Sorts
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