#hebrew

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. ↗

— John Adams

#atheist #believe #believed #blind #civilize

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#beginning #century #common #end #era

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#credible #deny #either #hebrews #hero

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#add #consonants #dots #equation #hebrew

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#hebrew #i #might #something

We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#churches #command #crowned #emperor #hebrew

Oh mia patria sì bella e perduta! O membranza sì cara e fatal! [Oh, my country, so beautiful, so lost. Oh, memory, So dear, so doomed.] The Va’ Pensiero chorus of the Jews in exile from Giuseppe Verdi’s “Nabucco” Lyrics by Solera. ↗

— Solera Verdi

#nabucco #va-pensiero #beauty

I do not like the darkness, but please don’t make the light too strong. ↗

— Raphael Ben Levi

#hebrew #inspirational #jewishness #messianic #inspirational

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#been #familiar #hebrew #interest #judaism

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#because #being #concern #czar #earnestness