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Thus all precepts cautioning against idolatry, or against that which is connected therewith, leads to it, or is related to it, are evidently useful.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
God's knowledge extends to things not in existence, and includes also the infinite.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
My object in adopting this arrangement is that the truths should be at one time apparent and at another time concealed.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
It is forbidden to dwell in the vicinity of any of those with an evil tongue, and all the more to sit with them and listen to their words.
No matter how small his portion, let him rejoice in it.
There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
What prevented Him from making His primary object a direct commandment to us, and to give us the capacity of obeying it?
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
There shall always be much silence in a man's conduct. He shall speak only about a matter concerned with wisdom or matters that are necessary to keep his body alive.
A sensible man should not demand of me, or hope that when we mention a subject, we shall make a complete exposition of it.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
Job abandoned his first very erroneous opinion, and himself proved that it was an error.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
One who is in a dying condition is regarded as a living person in all respects.
God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us. This is not the case.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
The philosophers have uttered very perverse ideas as regards God's Omniscience of everything besides Himself; they have stumbled in such a manner that they cannot rise again, nor can those who adopt their views.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
A difference of opinion exists only as to the question to which of the two classes anything belongs; whether to the class of the impossible, or to that of the possible. Note it.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
Those who are ignorant and perverse in their thought are constantly in trouble and pain, because they cannot get as much of the superfluous things as a certain other person possesses.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)