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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.

Maimonides

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
MAIMONIDES

Difficult Imagination Problem Understand
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
MAIMONIDES

Bed Heart Listen Yourself
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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Action Goodness Important Purpose
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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Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
MAIMONIDES

Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
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.
MAIMONIDES

Disease Fools Science Sick Tree Value
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
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
MAIMONIDES

Acceptance Blessing Generosity
Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
MAIMONIDES

Acceptance Misery Money Yourself
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.
MAIMONIDES

Charity Hands Man Strength
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.
MAIMONIDES

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
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
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.
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Gift Hands Inspirational Practice Understand
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDES

Philosophy Purpose Yourself
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
MAIMONIDES

Existence God Home

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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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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