People justify their own subservience to pleasure by citing men and women of the past who allegedly did the same things they are doing.
Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.
The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.
No one can stand up against the authority of truth, and the evil of falsehood is to be fought with enlightening speculation.
History, therefore, is firmly rooted in philosophy. It deserves to be accounted a branch of philosophy.
Muhammad said: Every infant is born in the natural state. It is his parents who make him a Jew or a Christian or a heathen.
Government decisions are as a rule unjust, because pure justice is found only in the legal caliphate that lasted only a short while.
In the case of all human qualities, the extremes are reprehensible, and the middle road is praiseworthy.
Happiness and profit are achieved mostly by people who are obsequious and use flattery. Such character disposition is one of the reasons for happiness.
Every realm may have as large a militia as it can hold and support, but no more.
The knowledge that has not come down to us is larger than the knowledge that has.