The Prophets even express their surprise that God should take notice of man, who is too little and too unimportant to be… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The prophet Isaiah ... points out what will be the cause of this change; for he says that hatred, quarrel, and fighting… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
