Isaac Leib Peretz: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Quoted by M. Samuel, Prince of the Ghetto, 146.

“Jews are likened to sand: tiny grains, dry and scattered, each separate from the other.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Reb Nohemkes Myses, 1904, p. 200.

“A heap of bricks is not yet a house.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, 35; S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 239.

Housing

“According to the generation is the music thereof.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, vi. 73.

Music

“[Christianity] is a denial of this world, a severance from reality, an abdication, a means of redemption from, not for, life.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Vegn vos Firn op fun Yidishkeit, 1911. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 372.

Life , World , Reality

“Time is change, transformation, evolution. Time is eternal sprouting, blossoming, the eternal tomorrow.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. Alle Verk, xiii. 9.

Change , Time

“The ancient Greeks and Romans tell of a golden age in the past…. Our Messiah alone belongs to the future. He still has to make his appearance, and not solely for the benefit of his own people. The whole world must be judged and redeemed.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 11; S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 310.

People , Age , World , Appearance

“We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Quoted by M. Samuel, Prince of the Ghetto, 179.

Drink

“Not all Hasidim are hasidim.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Torah, 1906. Alle Verk, iv. 75.

“He who provides life provides also a living.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Yohanan Melamed's Maaselech. Alle Verk, vi. 181.

Life

“We are more than a people…. We are of a pure blood.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Verk, edited by Kletzkin, xi. 277.

People

“[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Idishe Bibliotek, i. Pref., 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 7.

Life , People , History , Nature

“Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

All for a Pinch of Snuff, c. 1910. Quoted in M. Samuel. Prince of the Ghetto. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, p. 64.

Mountain

“Who tells the truth needs no fancy phrases.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Yohanan Melameds Maaselach, 1904. Alle Verk, vi. 181.

Truth

“Youth is fair, a graceful stag,
Leaping, playing in a park.
Age is gray, a toothless hag,
Stumbling in the dark.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Sewing the Wedding Gown, 1906. Nine One-Act Plays from Yiddish. Translated by Bessie F. White, Boston, John W. Luce & Co., 1932, p. 127.

Youth , Age

“A stranger's rose is but a thorn.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

In Alien Lands, translated by Leah W. Leonard.

“In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Shreib a Feleton, 1895. Alle Verk, xii. 77.

World

“I want to soar the boundless blue
Where winds and tempests have their birth,
And let the clouds conceal for me
Not heaven, but the earth.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

"I Am a Rainworm", 1900, translated by Jacob Robbins. J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 83.

Birth

“In the hands of the Jew, the reddest of all flags has been placed forcibly, and he has been told: "Go, go on and on, with all the liberators, with all fighters for a better tomorrow, with all destroyers of Sodoms. But never may you rest with them…. Pay everywhere the bloodiest costs of liberation, but be unnamed in all emancipation proclamations, or be rarely and scarcely mentioned."… The people cursed and blessed to be the last of the redeemed, to be eternally bleeding, the highest soaring expression of the divine in life.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

The Day, 1906. Alle Verk, xii. 319. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 18.

Life , People

“To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 19.