Quotes About Isaac Bashevis Singer

After fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland, Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer compared species bias to the "most extreme racist theories." Singer argued that animal rights was the purest form of social-justice advocacy, because animals are the most vulnerable of all the downtrodden. He felt that mistreating animals was the epitome of the "might-makes-right" moral paradigm. We trade their most basic and important interests against fleeting human ones only because we can.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.

If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.

Misfortune draws people to religion and mysticism

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But basically he remained the same: without belief in himself or in the human race; a fatalistic hedonist who lived in pre-suicidal gloom. Religions lied.

Schopenhauer was right. It's all that blind will to prolong the human tragedy.

A restlessness peculiar to people who turn the night into day hung in the air.

One did not need to be a believer to see the purpose in nature, the truth of so-called teleology, so taboo in science.