You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.
Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?
We’re on the threshold of death. Soon, we shall be inside …
Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going.
There are a thousand and one gates leading into the orchard of mystical truth. Every human being has his own gate. We must never make the mistake of wanting to enter the orchard by any gate but our ow...
Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand still but perseveres in the face of adversity, nor does he...
Never again becomes more than a slogan: It's a prayer, a promise, a vow. There will never again be hatred, people say. Never again jail and torture. Never again the suffering of innocent people, or th...
Luz Castro And then i explain that the world did know and remained silent. and that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take...
Love that makes everything complicated. While hate simplifies everything. Hatred puts accents on things and beings, and on what separates them. Love erases accents.
It’s over. God is no longer with us. And as though he regretted having uttered such words so coldly, so dryly, he added in his broken voice, I know. No one has the right to say things like that. I kno...
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred...
His breathing was labored. His eyes were closed. But I was convinced that he was seeing everything. That he was seeing the truth in all things.
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise. When You were displeased by Noah’s generation, You...
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I hav...
What is man? Dust turned to hope.
We must not see person as anabstraction.Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets,with its own treasures, with its ownsources of anguish,
Then he smiled. I shall always remember that smile. What world did it come from? Heavy snow continued to fall over the corpses.