Chaim Potok book The Chosen
Reuven Malter when thinking about the death of Pres. Roosevelt
The Chosen (1967)
“How senseless is the sordid love of gain;
Blind to all else the mind that's set on profit.”
— Diphilus
Fragment 13
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Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Il y a des âmes sales, pétries de boue et d’ordure, éprises du gain et de l’intérêt, comme les belles âmes le sont de la gloire et de la vertu; capables d’une seule volupté, qui est celle d’acquérir ou de ne point perdre.
Aphorism 58
Les Caractères (1688), Des biens de fortune
“How many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?”
Cindy Sheehan (1957) American antiwar activist
TV Commercial http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/2005/08/gold-star-families-for-pe_5552.html, August 12, 2005 <br class="br">2005
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Commenting upon the Aleinu prayer, in "Why We Remain Jews" (1962)
Context: The kingdom is Yours, and You will reign in glory for all eternity. As it is written in Your Torah: "The Lord shall reign for ever and ever." And it is said: " And the Lord shall be King over all the earth: on that day the Lord shall be One, and His name One."
No nobler dream was ever dreamt. It is surely nobler to be a victim of the most noble dream than to profit from a sordid reality and to wallow in it. Dream is akin to aspiration. And aspiration is a kind of divination of an enigmatic vision. And an enigmatic vision in the emphatic sense is the perception of the ultimate mystery, of the truth of the ultimate mystery. The truth of the ultimate mystery — the truth that there is an ultimate mystery, that being is radically mysterious — cannot be denied even by the unbelieving Jew of our age. That unbelieving Jew of our age, if he has any education, is ordinarily a positivist, a believer in Science, if not a positivist without any education.
Thomas Cahill (1940) American scholar and writer
Source: Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003), Ch.VII The Way They Went: Greco-Roman Meets Judeo-Christian
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Love to Faults
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.”
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena, Act I, scene i.
Variant: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind".
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
