Maimonides Quotes

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• He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
• You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
• Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then…
• 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…
• 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…
• If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which…
• The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
• To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
• Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in…
• Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on…
• Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain…
• 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…
• 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…
• All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as…
• Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit…
• It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may…
• 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…
• Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.
• The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

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