Hold firmly to your word.
MAIMONIDESGod cannot be compared to anything.
More Maimonides Quotes
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The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God’s knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.
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There are eight levels of charity. The highest is when you strengthen a man’s hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
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For it is said, You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him, that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.
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Astrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
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What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
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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.
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Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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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.
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