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Ibn Khaldun Inspirational Quotes (13)

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Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.
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Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.
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When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice... If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.
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Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.
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Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.
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People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species.
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All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.
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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.
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He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others and he who walks far ahead of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries pass before he is recognized as such.
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Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.
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Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.
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Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right
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Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.
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