It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. - Moshe ben Maimon

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of that property are considered by them as two opposites, they treat, e.g., blindness and sight, death and life, in the same way as heat and cold. Therefore they say, without any qualification, non-existence does not require any agent, an agent is required when something is produced.

In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.