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. Characters are supposed to have understandable motivations. The reader is supposed to be able to relate to them.

Aaron Starmer

#3. As we continue toward the fifth secret technique of psychics, I have a gut feeling that you are the sort of person that lets your heart rule your head, can sometimes be too impulsive for your own good, and have recently come into contact with a goat. Rest assured you are not the only one.

Richard Wiseman

#4. If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture.

Dan Phillips

#5. Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

George S. Clason

#6. We do do such a variety, especially if you consider all five records.

Josh Silver

#7. She doesn't have to stay locked into place, into this mournful, drawn-out, low-grade misery. She has all kinds of choices and possibilities, and the only thing that's keeping her away from them is lack of willpower.

Margaret Atwood

#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

#9. Every moment that's ever been, or ever will be, is gone the instant it's begun. So life is loss. And the secret of happiness is to learn to love the moment more than you mourn the loss.

Dan Baker