Quotations
- The Jewish return to Israel was an effort to reassume responsibility in history, an effort to re-create the Jewish people as free in deciding its own destiny.
- The Jews are a people who dwell alone. The great creators, too, dwell alone, as God was Alone in creating the world.
- Better a single masterpiece than a thousand forgotten works.
- The great creator is often a child struggling for the approval of a parent who will never wholly approve.
- The Jews are the people who have created and suffered the most in history. This connection cannot be incidental but must certainly relate to God’s plan for humanity.
- Without God life has no ultimate meaning. The need for God is the need to find reason and purpose for human existence.
- Virtual Immortality is now guaranteed to all of us. But no one really knows for how long.
- As we have enormously enhanced our power to transform our immediate terrestrial world we have become aware of our infinitesimal smallness and almost absolute powerlessness in the universe as a whole.
- If it weren’t for the idea of God we would have all been hopelessly mortal long ago.
- It is forbidden for humanity to create a kind of being which will totally replace it. This principle should be held constantly in mind by the developers of the new and strange forms of being there will be in the future.
- The Internet has, with all the positive possibilities it has opened up, led also to an exponential growth in publicly available nonsense, error and stupidity.
- There are characters we have known in real life who seem so great as to make even the most devoted literary effort at their immortalization small and inadequate.
- The future before us seems on the one hand incredibly open and vast—and on the other determined to end in ultimate disaster. And so beyond all the evidence, and beyond all what we now know, and what we are likely to know millions of years from now, the single ultimate hope for Mankind is still in the idea of a God transcending all that we can, as intelligent creatures, ever possibly conceive.
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“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)
“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)