Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Gersonides

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French philosopher Gersonides.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Gersonides

Levi ben Gershon, better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France. According to Abraham Zacuto and others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan.

Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in its explanation, why the work is done a in a particular way, and because the art of calculating is a practical occupation, it is clear that it is pertinent to concern oneself with the theory.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. — © Gersonides
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
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