Jonathan Rosen famous quotes

The things that make us human often make us ill.
-- Jonathan Rosen

#Humanity #Ill #Humans

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.
-- Jonathan Rosen

#Men #People #Looks

Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.
-- Jonathan Rosen

#Beautiful #People #Goldfish

It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.
-- Jonathan Rosen

#Hands #People #Giving

The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.
-- Jonathan Rosen

#Heaven #Soul #Dying

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues its inevitable transition from the first Industrial Era... Pavan Sukhdev is a powerful standard-bearer leading us to the cleaner, knowledge-rich Green Economy globally, and this book provides a benchmark and guide to this better future for humanity.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,

In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well;

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.

Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?