Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for… — Maimonides Education Copy Share Image
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary — Maimonides Nature Copy Share Image
The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . .… — Maimonides Belief Copy Share Image
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being. — Maimonides Art Copy Share Image
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives… — Maimonides Change Copy Share Image
Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner… — Maimonides Bears Copy Share Image
It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him. — Maimonides Advantage Copy Share Image
Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of… — Maimonides Animal Copy Share Image
However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a… — Maimonides Divine Copy Share Image
All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the… — Maimonides Astronomy Copy Share Image
He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously… — Maimonides Accidents Copy Share Image
At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. — Maimonides Astrology Copy Share Image
Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space. — Maimonides Breathing 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 Book Copy Share Image
The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge… — 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… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even… — 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 Capital punishment Copy Share Image
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will… — Maimonides Books Copy Share Image
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as… — Maimonides Abandonment Copy Share Image
If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard… — Maimonides Haughtiness 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 Change Copy Share Image
We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from… — Maimonides Accidents Copy Share Image
Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits… — Maimonides Body Copy Share Image
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good . — Maimonides Action Copy Share Image
In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of… — Maimonides Body Copy Share Image
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
