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

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

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Purpose, Should, Whole

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 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.

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

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