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.
MAIMONIDESI will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
More Maimonides Quotes
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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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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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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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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Hold firmly to your word.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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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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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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Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
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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.
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I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.
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All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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