Quote by Ibn Sina: “The more perfect the intelligence, the more complete the separation from the body.”

This quote reflects Ibn Sina's Neoplatonic views on the soul and intellect. It suggests that higher states of wisdom involve a detachment from physical desires and limitations, allowing the mind to achieve pure, abstract thought.

Part of his extensive philosophical system that synthesized Aristotelian and Neoplatonic thought with Islamic theology, exploring the nature of the soul and its journey toward intellectual perfection in the 11th century.

Persian polymath born in 980 CE in Bukhara, in present-day Uzbekistan, who made foundational contributions to medicine, philosophy, astronomy, and mathematics. His Canon of Medicine was used as a standard medical textbook in Europe and the Islamic world for over six centuries.