Maimonides Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit.

  Maimonides

  Errors, Evil, Soul

  Moses Maimonides (1919). “The Guide for the Perplexed”

• For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move otherwise than in a straight line. The rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are of two kinds, either centrifugal, viz., the motion of the air and the fire; or centripedal, viz., the motion of the earth, and the water; and when the elements have reached their original place, they remain at rest.

  Maimonides

  Wise, Moving, Two

  "The Guide for the Perplexed".

• 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.

  Maimonides

  Sight, Opposites, Two

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1023, Moses Maimonides

• 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.

  Maimonides

  Soul, Body, Force

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.270, Courier Corporation

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