Benjamin Wiker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

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