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Quotes of the Day for 30 March 2005 - Maimonides

Moshe ben Maimon was born at Córdoba, Spain on this day in 1135, at a time when that portion of Spain was under Moorish rule. The family fled to Morocco after Cordoba was captured in war, and Moshe studied at the university at Fez. He was free to write and study because his younger brother was a gem merchant, but after the brother was lost at sea Moshe became a physician. After living briefly in Israel, he settled at Cairo and became the physician to the Sultan Saladin. He was a Jewish rabbi who lived almost his entire life in Muslim communities, wrote philosophy and medical treatises in Arabic, and is best known by a Greek name, Maimonides.

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

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

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.... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

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.

No illness which can be treated by the diet should be treated by any other means.
     - All from Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides), 1135 - 1204

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