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Maimonides

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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 world disagrees with it.


— Maimonides


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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it


— Maimonides


#disease #humanism #medicine #nurse #medicine

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.


— Maimonides


#any #disease #means #other #should

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.


— Maimonides


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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


#branches #consequently #first #human #lastly

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.


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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.


— Maimonides


#i do #know #progress #say #shalt

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.


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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


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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


#conditions #connected #consider #matter #mental






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Did you know about Maimonides?

For the next ten years Maimonides moved about in southern Spain eventually settled in Fes in Morocco the capital of the Almohads where he studied at the University of Al-Karaouine. Following this sojourn in Morocco together with two sons he sojourned in the Holy Land before settling in Fostat Egypt around 1168. Maimonides and his wife the daughter of one Mishael ben Yeshayahu Halevi had one child Avraham who was recognized as a great scholar and who succeeded him as Nagid and as court physician at the age of eighteen.

He was born in Córdoba Almoravid Empire (present-day Spain) on Passover Eve 1135 and died in Egypt on December 12 1204. Nevertheless he was posthumously acknowledged to be one of the foremost rabbinical arbiters and philosophers in Jewish history his copious work comprising a cornerstone of Jewish scholarship.

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