Isaac Quotes

Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

The performances had to be live. When you play it back, you can see if the hands aren't really doing the right thing, and then the whole magic falls apart.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

Satirists do expose their own ill nature.

A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

None of us has a girlfriend. But being in a band, you meet people everywhere you go. I know mine will turn up one day.

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

Understanding brings control.

Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

You will win with either color if you are the better player, but it takes longer with Black.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.

Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.

Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.