Moses
Moses
Mosesis a prophet in Abrahamic religions. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was a former Egyptian prince who later in life became a religious leader and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed. Also called Moshe Rabbenu in Hebrew, he is the most important prophet in Judaism. He is also an important prophet in Christianity, Islam, Baha'ism as well as a number of other faiths...
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american-musician experience gift gives greatest knowledge moral passion wide
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
dads driving kids
The dads do more than I do. They are the ones that do the driving and take their kids all over.
quality taste needs
The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.
witty book humorous
This book fills a much-needed gap.
education teacher book
I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.
witty book reading
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
witty book humorous
I have read your book and much like it.
games chess too-much
For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.
sight glasses understanding
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight
philosophical school disputes
You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes
thinkable
A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present
I am, therefore there is a God.
art desire movement
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it
mean doubt resolve
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths