How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the inherent limitations of human abilities and sensations despite variations among individuals.
Maimonides suggests that while individuals of the same species can exhibit significant differences in their sensations and physical faculties, there are inherent limits to these capabilities. This implies a philosophical viewpoint on the nature of human abilities, emphasizing that although variations exist, they are bounded by certain constraints, reinforcing the idea of humility in the face of human limitations.
In practice
This quote can be used in a philosophical discussion about the nature of human perception.
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
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