Question 1

What is the best book to start with?

Accepted Answer

Deliverance from Error, from the opening standard of knowledge through the account of philosophy The famous sentence about certainty is the start of a narrative. Stopping at the doubt misses the book's claim about where certainty came from.

Question 2

What is the most famous quote?

Accepted Answer

This library does not measure fame, and it does not rank lines by how often they are shared. The first line it files for Al-Ghazālī that is not marked Questionable or Misattributed is “What I seek is certain knowledge, in which the thing known is disclosed so that no doubt remains, and the mind cannot even entertain the possibility of error.” (Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-Ḍalāl), opening movement, Paraphrase or translation).

Question 3

What is the most misquoted line?

Accepted Answer

None of the lines this library files for Al-Ghazālī is marked Misattributed or Questionable. That is a fact about these cards, not a certificate that every popular sentence is theirs.

Question 4

What is one key idea, in a sentence?

Accepted Answer

Certain knowledge: Knowledge, as he first demanded it, leaves no room for the mind to entertain the possibility of error.