The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

Ibn Khaldun

Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

Ibn Khaldun

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.

Ibn Khaldun

The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of rough, uncivilized rural life, such as hard conditions of life, courage, ferocity, and partnership in authority.

Therefore the strength of the 'Asabiya is maintained ...

Asabiya (social solidarity)

Ibn Khaldun

Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator.

Al-Jahiz

“Two truths cannot contradict one another.” 

Ibn Rushd

“Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect” 

Ibn Rushd

How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

Ibn Arabi

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

Ibn Arabi

The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins.

And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful.

Dhul-Nun al-Misri

“A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.”

Al-Farabi

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.

Ibn Rushd

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments.

At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

Ibn Khaldun

If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.

Ibn Khaldun

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

Ibn Khaldun