Occupation: Philosopher Birth: March 30, 1135 Death: December 12, 1204
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease..
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death..
Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God..
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt..
Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space..
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means..
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 p….
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime..
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..
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it….
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still..
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known..
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities..
First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their or….
In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body..
At times the truth shines so brilliantly that we perceive it as clear as day. Our nature and habit then draw a veil over our perception, and we retur….
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 ….
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil.... W….
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly supe….
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 thing….