Quotes About Hasidism

#1. What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

Elie Wiesel

#2. It is in man that God must be loved, because the love of God goes through the love of man. Whoever loves God exclusively, namely excluding man, reduces his love and his God to the level of abstraction. Beshtian Hasidism denies all abstraction.

Elie Wiesel

#3. He strengthened his body to keep up with his mind. He began lifting weights, practicing judo, and wrestling. One day after school, a bully tried to pick on Carmack's neighbor, only to become a victim of Carmack's judo skills.

David Kushner

#4. Can I help you up?"
"No," she said bitterly. "I prefer to drag myself along the hardwood floor."
"Bitch," I said, squatting to help her up.

Charlaine Harris

#5. It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Henry Rollins

#6. Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'
Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.

Kim Harrison

#7. I love fashion, but I'm not obsessed with it.

Christy Turlington

#8. Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect ... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals must follow logically ... Ah, the God of the deserts, that crazed, stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his power to make laws!

Adolf Hitler

#9. There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.

Amit Ray

#10. No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.

Rene Magritte

#11. A lot of young people think they're invincible, but the truth is young people are knuckleheads. Now young people can get insurance for as little as $50 a month, less than the cost of gym shoes.

Michelle Obama

#12. My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

Marcel Duchamp

#13. Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

Eric Knight

#14. When you've travelled for 34 years as a musician, you do all the culture stuff when you're young and full of energy. In the middle stage, you indulge too much and are scared of daylight. Then, in the final stage, you've seen it all, so you tend to take things a lot easier.

Peter Hook

#15. That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.

Carlton Cuse