Maimonides Quotes
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination. - Maimonides
You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
- Maimonides
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
- Maimonides
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
- Maimonides
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
- Maimonides
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.
- Maimonides
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.
- Maimonides
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it.
- Maimonides
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.
- Maimonides
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