People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.
I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.
The world is undoubtedly going through great changes. The only question is whether the outcome will be the good of Aryan humanity or profits for the Jew. The task of the national state will, therefore, be to preserve the race and fit it to meet the final and great decisions on this globe by suitable education of its youth.
Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.
In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.