Omar Khayyam a Persian Mathematician, Astronomer and Poet

Who is Omar Khayyam?

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Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. He was born in Nishapur, in northeastern Iran, and spent most of his life near the court of the Karakhanid and Seljuq rulers in the period which witnessed the First Crusade. Wikipedia

Born: May 18, 1048, Neyshabur, Iran

Died: December 4, 1131, Neyshabur, Iran

Nationality: Iranian

Parents: Ibrahim Khayyam Nayshapuri

Quotes from Omar Khayyam

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

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,

Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit

Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,

Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.” 

“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much

Just remember two main rules for the beginning:

You better starve, than eat whatever

And better be alone, than with whoever.” 

“As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.” 

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

“Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” 

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,

Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit

Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,

Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.” 

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“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much

Just remember two main rules for the beginning:

You better starve, than eat whatever

And better be alone, than with whoever.” 

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“I sent my Soul through the Invisible, 

Some letter of that After-life to spell: 

And by and by my Soul return'd to me, 

And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell” 

“As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.” 

“Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!

One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;

One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -

The Flower that once has blown forever dies.” 

“Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever.” 

“And do you think that unto such as you

A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew

God gave a secret, and denied it me?

Well, well—what matters it? Believe that, too!” 

“It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,

and is deprived of the light 

of a heart ablaze.

The day on which you are

without passionate love

is the most wasted day of your life.” 

“Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.” 

“How sad, a heart that

does not know how to love, that

does not know what it is to be drunk with love.

If you are not in love, how can you enjoy

the blinding light of the sun,

the soft light of the moon?” 

Philosophy and Religious views of Omar Khayyam

Khayyam considered himself intellectually to be a student of Avicenna.According to Al-Bayhaqi, he was reading the metaphysics in Avicenna's the Book of Healing before he died.There are six philosophical papers believed to have been written by Khayyam. One of them, On existence.Another paper, titled The necessity of contradiction in the world, determinism and subsistence.

A literal reading of Khayyam's quatrains leads to the interpretation of his philosophic attitude toward life as a combination of pessimism, nihilism, Epicureanism, fatalism, and agnosticism.