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Avicenna, also known as Ibn Sina, was a Persian polymath who made significant contributions to various fields including philosophy, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and more. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the Islamic Golden Age and is considered a bridge between ancient Greek philosophy and the medieval European scholasticism.

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00:00 Intro
00:33 "Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
00:40 "The person who is not a thinker has no advantage over one who cannot think."
00:47 "To shun philosophy is really to be a lover of ignorance."
00:53 "The universe is a composable whole; everything is connected."
01:00 "The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion, and men who have religion and no wit."
01:09 "The difference between the prudent and the unprudent is like that between the sick and the healthy."
01:17 "Happiness is the reward of those who act according to the best that is in them."
01:26 "The ultimate truth is: Man knows nothing save only his passions."
01:33 "Do not dismiss the truth spoken by an enemy, nor accept a falsehood from a friend."
01:41 "The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
01:48 "The bodily form is, for all men, the representative of the soul."
01:55 "The soul does not suddenly exist in man, any more than animals suddenly come into existence."
02:04 "Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
02:11 ""To live well is to work well, to show a good activity."
02:18 "In intellectual knowledge, the greater is the more universal."
02:25 "Science does not accept a consensus."
02:30 "Man does not actually contemplate movement in himself or in other things."
02:37 "Everything that is subject to origin is subject to destruction."
02:44 "To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."
02:53 "The world has no existence whatever outside the human imagination."
03:00 "There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential."
03:06 "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
03:12 "The heart is the ruler, but the organs obey it."
03:18 "The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."
03:24 "Who has no mind has nothing to direct him."
03:30 "A man should rise above his place in life to the height of his intellectual ability."
03:36 "In the future, science will make gods."
03:43 "It is better to be known by one intelligent person than a hundred fools."
03:50 "The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it."
03:59 "Let us remember that the heart is the seat of all good and the head the seat of all evil."
04:08 "When you reach the truth you will understand all things."
04:14 "All bodies share the same properties, but in different degrees."
04:20 "Ignorance is the cause of fear."
04:25 "The wisdom of man consists in knowledge about himself."
04:31 "Learning is a natural pleasure of the mind, as eating is of the body."
04:38 "Our virtues are the outcome of a certain inborn capacity of our soul."
04:46 "Intellect in itself is always in movement, so that it needs not always be in motion."
04:54 "It is a fact that this world would not exist without the spiritual world."
05:01 "The intellect is in no need of tradition."
05:07 "No quality is diminished as a result of division."
05:13 "The soul is a substance in its own right."
05:18 "All the parts of the body work together for the welfare of the complete body."
05:25 "The intelligence of the sensible world, and also that of the intelligible world, is inherent in the soul."
05:34 "It is our nature to desire to know."
05:39 "Reason knows the world of nature as an efficient cause."

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