"We find collected in this book [The Bible]……" — Max Nordau
"We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality."
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Max Nordau
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10 Quotes by Max Nordau
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It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
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The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
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