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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

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
MAIMONIDES

Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
MAIMONIDES

Angel Mission Trust
All forces that reside in the body are angels.
MAIMONIDES

Angel Body Force Self Love
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
MAIMONIDES

Better Death Guilty Oneself Person Satisfaction
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

Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
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
Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
MAIMONIDES

Body Comfortable Emotional Grief Pain
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
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
MAIMONIDES

Existence God Home
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

Knowledge Understand Word
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
MAIMONIDES

Nature Necessary Purpose
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.
MAIMONIDES

Change Comfortable Experience Feeling Gratitude Happiness Help Worst
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
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
MAIMONIDES

Difficult Imagination Problem Understand
God cannot be compared to anything.
MAIMONIDES

God One Liner
The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God’s knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.
MAIMONIDES

Change Character Doubt God Intellectual Knowledge Law Man Mindset Ourselves Present Principle Result Support

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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