“In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.”

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

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.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

God cannot be compared to anything.

He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.

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.

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.

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.

God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

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.

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.

Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.