Avishai Quotes

#1. The Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit has suggested that the important thing is not a person's identity but his or her identifications.

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David Kaufmann

#2. Why should you care if you have nothing to hide?

J. Edgar Hoover

#3. The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Bernard Avishai

#4. There are no rules in life. Whether it is written down, or spoken by shamans, nothing binds a man beyond himself. Nothing, save the chains he accepts for himself. Laws and traditions mean nothing, if you have the strength.

Conn Iggulden

#5. Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

John Owen

#6. The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

Vita Sackville-West

#7. 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.

Anonymous

#8. He knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages. Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one,

Thomas Wolfe

#9. The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.

DeWitt Wallace

#10. Hope deferred makes the heart sick, h but a desire fulfilled is i a tree of life.

Anonymous

#11. When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

Sid Waddell

#12. Specificity is the soul of narrative.

John Hodgman

#13. Though we think we see different things from our windows, in reality we see the same things: Happiness and sorrow! All that is seen from every window!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call it Israel's immaculate misconception.

Avishai Margalit