Maimonides on acceptance
Maimonides71 quotes“Man’s obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.”
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MaimonidesMaimonides 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.
MaimonidesMaimonides 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.
MaimonidesMaimonides In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
MaimonidesMaimonides Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
MaimonidesMaimonides 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.
MaimonidesMaimonides The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
MaimonidesMaimonides Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
MaimonidesMaimonides Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
MaimonidesMaimonides Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
MaimonidesMaimonides What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
MaimonidesMaimonides Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
MaimonidesMaimonides 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.
MaimonidesMaimonides 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.
MaimonidesMaimonides Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MaimonidesMaimonides Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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