Averroes Quotes

• Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

  Averroes

  Positive, Fear, Hate

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• An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.

  Averroes

  Army, Errors, Philosopher

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• Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.

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  Conformity, Intellect, Objects

  Tahafut at-tahafut (ca. 1180)

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• Women should be treated as human beings, not as domestic animals.

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  Animal, Gender, Should

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• All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing.

  Averroes

  Son, Science, Israel

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