Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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Unknown
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
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Aristotle
Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty
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R. Kelly
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not...
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Learned Hand
I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most ancient secrets of man and of earth, not forbidding us, however, a secular explanation of facts and a rational view of...
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Marguerite Yourcenar
More Quotes By Avicenna
Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
