Maimonides Quotes
Top 65 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maimonides
Maimonides Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
The being which has absolute existence, which has never been and will never be without existence, is not in need of an agent.
Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.
The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.
Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
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.
It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good .
Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.
Those who believe that ... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.
Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
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.
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.