Gersonides famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
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Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in its explanation, why the work is done a in a particular way, and because the art of calculating is a practical occupation, it is clear that it is pertinent to concern oneself with the theory.
-- Gersonides
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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
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Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
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Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
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May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
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I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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