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.
MAIMONIDESThe 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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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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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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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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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.
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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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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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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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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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God cannot be compared to anything.
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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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Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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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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The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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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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Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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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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Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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