An idea from Guide for the Perplexed

“A king is in his palace,” and people stand at different distances. Those who only study the practical law circle the walls. Those who prove what can be proved get inside. The same map ranks distant peoples below humanity, a 12th-century contempt with nothing behind it.

From Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides

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