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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

Maimonides

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.
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Destroy Equality Evil Goodness Himself Oneself World
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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God Himself Knowledge Philosophy Religious
God cannot be compared to anything.
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God One Liner
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Decision Deep Risk Wrong
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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Body Himself Person Power Reflection Respect
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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Desire God Ideas Knowledge Man Passion
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.
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Evil People Strength Suffering
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
MAIMONIDES

Avoid Beginning Philosophy Simplicity Talk
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
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Book Evil Greatness Grief Man Old Sick Thinking True Writing
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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Human Limitation Reason Religious Stop
It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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Fear God Hope Love Man Punishment Reward
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
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Animal Difference Emotional Human Intellectual Love Mom Worry
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Charity Poor
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDES

Philosophy Purpose Yourself
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
MAIMONIDES

Beginning Need Philosophy

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

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