Maimonides Quotes

God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century), is easily turned aside with just one more question: Who or what caused and moved God?

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.

I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.

What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.

Life ,for eternal us,is now

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

We are citizens of eternity.

I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.

Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.

Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.