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---- thoughts on, 115

---- foundation of his religion, 115

---- difference between Jesus Christ and, 116

---- forbade reading, 116

---- renders testimony to himself, 116

---- his doctrine is ridiculous, 117

---- religion of, 119

Maimonides, Moses, 157

Malchus, 235

Man, his ignorance, 5

---- his destiny, 6

---- unfairness of, in living indifferent to Religion, 9

---- blindness of, 12

---- worthlessness of, 13

---- comparison between, and nature, 19

---- presumption of, in wishing to know nature, 21

---- thinks he is able to comprehend the infinitely little, 22

---- must not look for certainty or stability, 23

---- in order to know himself should know all that is in relation to him, 24

---- the two natures of, bodily and spiritual, excludes us from the knowledge of nature, 24

---- stamps with his complex being all simple things, 25

---- twofold manner of considering the nature of, 26

---- nature has placed, in the centre of things, 26

---- all is fatal to, even those things made to serve him, 31

---- whence comes his happiness, 33

---- is surrounded with all that may divert him, 37

---- cannot think of two things at once, 38

---- seeks diversion as a remedy for his evils, 39

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