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.
MAIMONIDESMan’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.
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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
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Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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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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God cannot be compared to anything.
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Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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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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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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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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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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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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Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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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.
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In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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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.
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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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He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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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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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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