Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. -Immanuel Kant

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A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

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Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. - David Ben-Gurion

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Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

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Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

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Someone told me the other day that he felt bad for single people because they are lonely all the time. I told him that’s not true I’m single and I don’t feel lonely. I take myself out to eat, I buy myself clothes. I have great times by myself. Once you know how to take care of yourself company becomes an option and not a necessity. ― Keanu Reeves

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Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. - David Ben-Gurion

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The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion

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Independence is happiness. – Susan B. Anthony

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