Ibn Bajja Quotes on Knowledge
Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Yahya Ibn Bajja, known to the Latin West as Avempace, was an Andalusian polymath, the first major Islamic philosopher of the Iberian peninsula after Ibn Hazm and the principal predecessor of Ibn Tufayl and Averroes. This page collects quotes attributed to Ibn Bajja on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ibn Bajja:
“The solitary thinker has reached the highest stage of the philosophical life.”
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Attributed to Ibn Bajja:
“Knowledge is the soul's perfection.”
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Attributed to Ibn Bajja:
“True happiness is the contemplation of intelligibles.”
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Attributed to Ibn Bajja:
“Reason rises by stages from the senses to the contemplation of the divine.”