Рамбам цитаты (190 цитат, страница 6) | Цитаты известных личностей

As quoted in A Maimonides Reader (1972) by Isadore Twersky, p. 135. A footnote on this page states : tzedekah is translated as both "righteousness" and "charity".

“By following entirely the guidance of lust, in the manner of fools, man loses his intellectual energy, injures his body, and perishes before his natural time; sighs and cares multiply; there is an increase of envy, hatred, and warfare, for the purpose of taking what another possesses. The cause of all this is the circumstance that the ignorant considers physical enjoyment as an object to be sought for its own sake. God in His wisdom has therefore given us such commandments as would counteract that object, and prevent us altogether from directing our attention to it, and has debarred us from everything that leads only to excessive desire and to lust. This is an important thing included in the objects of our Law.”

Help us translate this quote

Maimónides книга The Guide for the Perplexed

Источник: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.33

“The reason of a commandment, whether positive or negative, is clear, and its usefulness evident, if it directly tends to remove injustice, or to teach good conduct that furthers the well-being of society, or to impart a truth which ought to be believed either on its own merit or as being indispensable for facilitating the removal of injustice or the teaching of good morals. There is no occasion to ask for the object of such commandments; for no one can, e. g., be in doubt as to the reason why we have been commanded to believe that God is one; why we are forbidden to murder, steal, and to take vengeance, or to retaliate, or why we are commanded to love one another. But there are precepts concerning which people are in doubt, and of divided opinions, some believing they are mere commands, and serve no purpose whatever, whilst others believe that they serve a certain purpose, which, however is unknown to man. Such are those precepts which in their literal meaning do not seem to further any of the three above-named results: to impart some truth, to teach some moral, or to remove injustice. They do not seem to have any influence upon the well-being of the soul by imparting any truth, or upon the well-being of the body by suggesting such ways and rules as are useful in the government of a state, or in the management of a household. …I will show that all these and similar laws must have some bearing upon one of the following three things, viz., the regulation of our opinions, or the improvement of our social relations, which implies two things, the removal of injustice, and the teaching of good morals.”

Help us translate this quote

Maimónides книга The Guide for the Perplexed

Источник: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.28

“We must consider the words, "the heavens were opened" (Ezek. i. 1); they give the key to the understanding of the whole. The figure of opening, also that of opening the gates, occurs frequently in the books of the prophets… When he commences to describe the firmament in detail, he says, "the firmament," without adding the words "the likeness of," for he says, "And I looked, and behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne" (Ezek x. 1). Here the prophet speaks of "the firmament" and not of "the likeness of the firmament,"…”

Help us translate this quote

Maimónides книга The Guide for the Perplexed

Источник: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.7

“Fourth Theory.—Man has free will; it is therefore intelligible that the Law contains commands and prohibitions, with announcements of reward and punishment. All acts of God are due to wisdom; no injustice is found in him, and he does not afflict the good. The Mu'tazila profess this theory, although they do not believe in man's absolute free will. They hold that God takes notice of the falling of the leaf and the destruction of the ant, and that his Providence extends over all beings.”

Help us translate this quote

Maimónides книга The Guide for the Perplexed

Источник: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.17

“The Mutakallemim… apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of that property are considered by them as two opposites, they treat, e. g., blindness and sight, death and life, in the same way as heat and cold. Therefore they say, without any qualification, non-existence does not require any agent, an agent is required when something is produced.”

Help us translate this quote

Maimónides книга The Guide for the Perplexed

Источник: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.10

“The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.”

Help us translate this quote

Maimónides книга The Guide for the Perplexed

Источник: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12

“Abraham was the first to teach the Unity of God, to establish the faith, to cause it to remain among coming generations, and to win his fellow-men to his doctrine; as Scripture says of him: "I know him, that he will command," &c.”

Help us translate this quote

Maimónides книга The Guide for the Perplexed

Gen. xviii. 19
Источник: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.24

“The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.”

Help us translate this quote

Maimónides книга The Guide for the Perplexed

Источник: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12

“The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e. g., some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind… they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.”

Help us translate this quote

Maimónides книга The Guide for the Perplexed

Источник: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12

Подобные авторы

Ибн Сина24

средневековый персидский учёный, философ и врач None

Омар Хайям225

персидский поэт, философ, математик, астроном, астролог None

Роджер Бэкон10

английский философ и естествоиспытатель None

Алишер Навои203

среднеазиатский тюркский поэт, философ суфийского направлен… None

Пьер Абеляр20

французский философ-схоласт, теолог, поэт и музыкант None

Фома Аквинский19

философ и теолог, систематизатор ортодоксальной схоластики,… None

Боэций6

римский государственный деятель, философ-неоплатоник, теоре… None

Иоанн Дамаскин27

христианский святой, почитаемый в лике преподобных, один из… None

Юстиниан I11

византийский император None

Рудаки57

таджикский и персидский поэт None