Sublime

“Who will then explain the explanation?”

principles, and his character, there cannot exist any longer

The more genuinely and characteristically Jewish an idea or doctrine is, the more deliberately unsystematic is it.

The finite word of man is aimed at the infinite word of God.

“to unseal the soul, to untie the knots which bind it,”

After all, a misunderstanding is often nothing but the paradoxical abbreviation of an original line of thought.

Darkly it stood in their path, the ally of forces and tendencies in whose rejection pride was taken by a Jewry which, in Steinschneider’s words, regarded it as its chief task to make a decent exit from the world.

To know the stages of the creative process is also to know the stages of one’s own return to the root of all existence.

As the idea is finally developed by the outstanding representatives of the new school, God is not so much the master of the universe as its first principle and prime mover.