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Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
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Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every…
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America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered…
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In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward…
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At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when…
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God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.
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A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to…
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It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or…
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Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from…
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Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of…
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Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning…
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A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would…
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,…
— Aristotle
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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and…
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Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than…
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Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
— Thomas Carlyle
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In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.
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Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which…
— Claude Bernard
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The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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He had made a passionate study of education, only to come, gradually, to the knowledge that education is nothing but the process…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in…
— Unknown Author
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Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with…
— Karl Jaspers
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