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Middle Ages5 quotes
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary. — Maimonides · 1190Astrology is a disease, not a science. — Maimonides · 1195The foundation of our faith is the belief that God created the Universe from nothing; that time did not exist previously, but was created. — Maimonides · 1190When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing then thousand fools-I prefer to address myself to the man. — Maimonides · 1190The basic tenets of our Torah and its fundamental principles are thirteen in number: The first fundamental principle is the existence of the Creator. There is a being who exists in the most perfect mode of existence, and he is the cause of he existence of all other beings. — Maimonides · 1168