"Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity."

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Source : "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs". Book by Joseph Hertz, Genesis III, 21 (p. 12), 1937.

Joseph Hertz

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“There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the spirit. The origin of life is creativity, freedom; and the personality, subject, and spirit are the representatives of that origin, but not the nature, not the object.”
“The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a better quality of life is undeniably needed, but even for the richest nations where the cornucopia of material wealth adds little to happiness and is beginning to threaten the foundations of our wellbeing.”
“History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.”
“What I think you should do is imagine people in their underwear but then also imagine them crying, and that - that is truly relaxing.”

Source : "A Guide To Mustering 'The Will To Whatevs'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Smith, www.npr.org. March 1, 2009.
“My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...”
“There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.”
“But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.”
“O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!”

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