Hear, O Israel: The LORD is our God, the LORD alone; You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,... and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead, and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to kn...ow why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love's the only thing I've thought of or read about since I was knee-high. That's what I always dreamed of, of meeting somebody an...d falling in love. And when that remarkable thing happened, I was going to recite poetry to her for hours about how her heart's an angel's wing and her hair the strings of a heavenly harp. Instead I got drunk and hollered at her and called her a harpy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternit...y. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only he can give, who ...has; he only can create, who is. The man on whom the soul descends, through whom the soul speaks, alone can teach. Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach; and every man can open his door to these angels, and they shall bring him the gift of tongues. But the man who aims to speak as books enable, as synods use, as the fashion guides, and as interest commands, babbles. Let him hush.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »