Isaac Bashevis Singer Famous Quotes
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
"When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself."
"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."
"We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions."
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotations
Jesters do often prove prophets.
William Shakespeare
Life is too short for a long story.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Johann von Goethe
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."
Elbert Hubbard
This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll.
Seneca
"If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods."
Epictetus
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
Robert Anson Heinlein
"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."
Robert Hutchins