Moshe Chaim Luzzatto famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

  • It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

  • Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

  • Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.

  • To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

  • The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?

  • The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.

  • I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

  • A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

  • Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.