God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
MAIMONIDESYour purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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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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The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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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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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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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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Astrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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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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