Gershom Scholem Quotes

#1. An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem regarded as the most Jewish writing in the German language. The Anti-Journalist is the best book I have seen on this engaging topic.

Istvan Deak

#2. In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

Cyril Connolly

#3. Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

Homer

#4. Live today, for tomorrow we die.

Alan Furst

#5. Sometimes, you don't get what you want the most ... At other times, you're just lucky.

Sanhita Baruah

#6. Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!

Terry Pratchett

#7. If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

William Jennings Bryan

#8. We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.

Gershom Scholem