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.
MAIMONIDESIt 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.
MAIMONIDESIt 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.
MAIMONIDESIf men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
MAIMONIDESIn 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.
MAIMONIDESIn the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
MAIMONIDESIn finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
MAIMONIDESGod is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
MAIMONIDESGive a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
MAIMONIDESThe whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
MAIMONIDESThe goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
MAIMONIDESDo not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
MAIMONIDESTruth 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.
MAIMONIDESInspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
MAIMONIDESYour purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
MAIMONIDESA wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
MAIMONIDESConsequently 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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