The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
MAIMONIDESGod cannot be compared to anything.
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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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All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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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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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.
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Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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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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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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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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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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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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