The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given ...
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet.
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
In any case, you must remember, my dearest, that the main strength of innocence is innocence itself. farewell.
Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
