Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.
In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
All is foreseen but the choice is given.
There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.
From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.
God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.
I believe in free will. I have no choice.
While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.
Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal-be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse-knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty.
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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