Ibn Hazm Quotes on Love
Abu Muhammad Ali Ibn Hazm was an Andalusian polymath, jurist, theologian, philosopher, and poet, one of the foremost minds of medieval Islamic Spain. This page collects quotes attributed to Ibn Hazm on the topic of love, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ibn Hazm:
“Love is friendship's blossom.”
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Attributed to Ibn Hazm:
“There is no heart that has not been broken at some time by love.”
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Attributed to Ibn Hazm:
“The heart's prison is the most painful.”
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“Should the merit of science being fear of the ignorant, and love and honour for the scholars, that alone should encourage striving for it. What then about its other virtues in this world and the other.”
ibid, 19