A thousand people cannot undress a naked person.
Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of.
The full person does not understand the needs of the hungry.
The person who lives by hope will die by despair.
The dying person cannot wait for the shroud to be woven.
Envious persons never compliment, they only swallow.
The person who asks for little deserves nothing.
Who is the happiest person in the world? An unfaithful husband.
A person who talks a lot is sometimes right.
The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.
The person who is tired will find time to sleep.
National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point ...
There are indeed moral universals — the Hebrew Bible calls them ‘the covenant with Noah’ and they form the basis of modern codes of human rights. But they exist to create space for cultural and religious difference…
Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.
While it may be impossible to 'disprove' the existence of some 'Higher Power' or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible — through analysis and research — to find discrepancies within the ancient, organized religious traditions that support the...
Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for which foreknowledge of the outcome didn't diminish the point of exercise, and Brüks had never been able to find any re...
The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.
I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more.
[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvat...
By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective.
