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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.

Maimonides

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
MAIMONIDES

Bed Heart Listen Yourself
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
In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
MAIMONIDES

Body Far Force Soul Spiritual
It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
MAIMONIDES

Fear God Hope Love Man Punishment Reward
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
MAIMONIDES

Doctor Food Goodness Help Light Religion Wine
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
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
MAIMONIDES

Charity Help Himself Man
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
MAIMONIDES

Equality Evil Goodness Man Philosophy See View World
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
MAIMONIDES

One Liner Truth
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
MAIMONIDES

Act God Himself Quality
All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Angel Body Force Self Love
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
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
MAIMONIDES

Charity Poor
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
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.
MAIMONIDES

Community Fall Live Need Strength Yourself

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