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Date: c. 1016-1021
"[The Active Intellect's] relation to our souls is that of the Sun to our vision."
preview | full record— Avicenna [Ibn Sīnā] (c. 980-1037)
Date: c. 1016-1021
"So, initially coming to know something is like treating the eye, but then when the eye is healthy, whenever it wants it looks at something from which a given form is taken, while when it turns from that thing, that [thing] comes to be in potency proximate to act."
preview | full record— Avicenna [Ibn Sīnā] (c. 980-1037)
