No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then...

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for a universal one.

Judaism is not a dogmatic religion but one which loves debate, in which scholarship has played a big part. Scholars never agree about anything.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.

We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews invented it to endure the coherence, cohesion and existence of their small, threatened...

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political...

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground...

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.

Adults need to live in a society that is economically social, governmentally democratic, and culturally free.

When a woman cries date rape, what she means is the whole thing went too quickly.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Certainly the multicultural activists in the Labour party and the universities wanted to destroy the old white Anglo-Saxon education system as they saw it, and produce something completely different -...

One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple...

To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm look at the numbers.