He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hi...
Do you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I don't understand why I wanted to kill you.
The sadness grew within her until she seemed to exist only as a dark nimbus of melancholy, and even Max could no longer cheer her with his talk and his
Man sees only between the blinks of his eyes. He does not know what the world is like during the blinks. He sees the world in pieces, in fragments.
I felt a sudden momentary sense of unreality, as if the play yard, with its black asphalt floor and its white base lines, were my entire world now, as if all the previous years of my life had led me s...
Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There i...
How do I convince him that the way we study Talmud is not a threat?''But it is a threat, Reuven. I just told you it is a threat. In the hands of those who do not love the tradition it is a dangerous w...
He became angry. It should read ‘those who fear ideas,’ not ‘those who fear God.’ There are times when those who fear God make themselves very unpleasant as human beings.
Good-bye, Davita. Be discontented with the world. But be respectful at the same time.
Do not expect redemption if you enter the world of art. Redemption is death to art. Tranquillity is the poison the artist takes when he is ready to give up his art.
Basically it’s none of our business how somebody manages to grow, if only he does grow, if only we’re on the trail of the law of our own growth.
A man must sometimes be forced to make choices, for it is only by his choices that we know what a man truly is.
The customs people were angered by my drawings. I told them I didn’t make the drawings to cause trouble; I was an artist, and an artist draws what he sees and feels and thinks. But they tried to confi...
It's my world, best friend. And I haven't seen anything outside that's better.
I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them;
I cannot have gone through what I went through and have lost what I lost if it’s all meaningless.
A person has to have a reason for living, and the best reason is another person. Together they can make a plan for their lives.
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can co...
You paint it, he responds. You are a specialist in darkness. I tell him, I didn’t live through it. He says, We all lived through it, everyone; all of humanity lived through it. Was Picasso in Guernica...
Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone.