Monday, January 31, 2005
“Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.”
- Jonathan Sacks (b. 1948), British Chief Rabbi: ‘The Persistence of Faith’, 1990 Reith Lecture.
“Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.”
- Albert Camus (1913 –1960), French-Algerian philosopher and author: “The Rebel”, 1951, translated 1953.
“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.”
- Primo Levi (1919 – 1987), Italian chemist and author: ‘Zinc’ in “The Periodic Table”, 1975, translated 1984.
- Jonathan Sacks (b. 1948), British Chief Rabbi: ‘The Persistence of Faith’, 1990 Reith Lecture.
“Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.”
- Albert Camus (1913 –1960), French-Algerian philosopher and author: “The Rebel”, 1951, translated 1953.
“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.”
- Primo Levi (1919 – 1987), Italian chemist and author: ‘Zinc’ in “The Periodic Table”, 1975, translated 1984.
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