Maimonides Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

  Maimonides

  Purpose, Should, Whole

• To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

  Maimonides

  Law, Perfect, Desire

  Moses Maimonides (2010). “The Guide of the Perplexed”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

• The question, "What is the purpose thereof?" cannot be asked about anything which is not the product of an agent; therefore we cannot ask what is the purpose of the existence of God.

  Maimonides

  Purpose, Agents, Existence

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.440, Aeterna Press

• The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of explaining the different opinions which people hold on Divine Providence. ...This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths. I will discuss it as fully as possible; and I will also tell you the words of our Sages that suggested to me the explanation of this great poem.

  Maimonides

  Jobs, Book, Ideas

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.22, 1190.

• Know that the difficulties which lead to confusion in the question what is the purpose of the Universe or of any of its parts, arise from two causes: first, man has an erroneous idea of himself, and believes that the whole world exists only for his sake; secondly, he is ignorant both about the nature of the sublunary world, and about the Creator's intention to give existence to all beings whose existence is possible, because existence is undoubtedly good.

  Maimonides

  Believe, Men, Ideas

  Moses Maimonides (1961). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.309, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Maimonides

  Purpose, May, Philosopher

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.308, Courier Corporation

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