Maimonides on action
Maimonides71 quotes“Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.”
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
MaimonidesMaimonides All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
MaimonidesMaimonides The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
MaimonidesMaimonides The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
MaimonidesMaimonides God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
MaimonidesMaimonides Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
MaimonidesMaimonides God cannot be compared to anything.
MaimonidesMaimonides He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
MaimonidesMaimonides The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind. They likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
MaimonidesMaimonides Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
MaimonidesMaimonides If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
MaimonidesMaimonides God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
MaimonidesMaimonides Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
MaimonidesMaimonides Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
MaimonidesMaimonides Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
MaimonidesMaimonides In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
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