Omar Khayyam Quotes On Death, Love, Religion at starsquotes -

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Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician , astronomer, philosopher and poet from May 18, 1048-December 4, 1131). He was born in Nishabur, in northeastern Iran, and spent most of his life in the time witnessing the First Crusade near the court of the rulers Karakhanid and Seljuq. As a mathematician, he is most notable for his work on classifying and solving cubic equations, where he given geometric solutions through conic intersections. Khayyam also helped understand the parallel axiom:284 As an astronomer he designed the Jalali calendar, a solar calendar with a very precise intercalation cycle of 33 years:659 Omar Khayyam, written in the form of quatrains, has a tradition of attributing poetry. This poetry was well known to the English-reading world in a translation by Edward FitzGerald (Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, 1859), who enjoyed great popularity in the fin de siècle Orientalism.

Omar Khayyam Quotes:

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

A hair divides what is false and true.

Omar Khayyam

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Omar Khayyam

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Omar Khayyam

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

Omar Khayyam

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Omar Khayyam

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

Omar Khayyam

Living Life Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Omar Khayyam

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Omar Khayyam
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