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Maimonides
Spanish Philosopher
Born: Mar 30, 1135
Died: Dec 12, 1204
Being Man Mind Respect Will You
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. Maimonides
Decision Indecision Risk Wrong Wrong Decision Terror Preferable Chance
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress. Maimonides
Progress Say Thou Shalt Thy Know Teach Tongue
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen. Maimonides
Liar Will Consider Hesitate Books Pen Proof Written Because His Same Deceive Just Just Because Who Tongue
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them! Maimonides
God Will Free Free Will Own Numerous Complain Our Faults Evils Ourselves Relief Seek Individual Due Existing Inflict Being Which Ascribe Them Far Persons Themselves Who Connected Exposed Suffer Defects
All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom. Maimonides
Wisdom Great Ignorance Cause Men Other Evils Religious Absence Likewise Non-Existence Principles Because Opinions Due Intentions Which Certain Each Originate Desires
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed. Maimonides
Good Balance Good And Evil World Evil Saved Destroyed Scale Bad See He Equal Himself Does Should Deed Good Deed
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. Maimonides
Truth You Whatever Must Accept Source
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. Maimonides
Charity Poverty Preventing Anticipate
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 Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. Maimonides
Mathematics Physics First Lastly Must Logic Proper Various Attain He Perfection Study Wishes Metaphysics Branches Human Order Then Next Who Therefore Consequently
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 space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. Maimonides
Respect Space Power Sphere Rank High Both Absolute Almighty Most Occupy Existence Greatness Heavenly Lowly Comparison Now Position
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. Maimonides
Wisdom Truth Knowledge Man Cause Men Hatred Others Relation Possessed Sight Eye Would Mutual Prevents Quarrels Same Any Form Which Themselves Stands Injuries Injury
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 had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. Maimonides
Respect Confused Too Much Will Power Too Apprehend Apprehension Alike Able Had Studies He Powers Within Been His Reflective Person Which Much Body Even
Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent. Maimonides
Respect Destruction Destroyed Only Through Permanent Nor Subject Essence Substance Form Transient Bodies
However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us. Maimonides
God Great Mind Our Ourselves Find Comprehend Prophets Divine Thus Between Ideals Partition Him Frequently Exertion Hint However Existence Any May Screen Being Us
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 assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems. Maimonides
Problems Every Solution All Things Examine True Thus Well Metaphysical According Infer Essence May Established Us Species Things Necessary Assist
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. Maimonides
Man Merits Due His Sins Substance Form While Shortcomings Body
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 to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. Maimonides
Degree Power Every Other Distance Faculties Individuals Known Limit How Surpass Same Sensations Cannot Them Bodily Each Species Extend Universally
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
Man Youth Defends Those Has-Been Case He Likes Opinions Opposite Been His Same Accustomed Which Them Views
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
Man Mind Long Way Possible One-Man Able Long Period Never Period Himself Insufficient Another Understand Metaphors Discover His Taught While Capacity Certain Means Grasp Even Expressions Thing

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