The Jewish Wisdom Database

A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth stands for ever.

Genius is required for the first step alone.

The Creator, blessed be He, is He that knows, and what is known and knowledge itself, all in one.

God is everywhere and everything.

Whatever God created has a spark of sanctity in it.

Beloved is Man who was created in the Divine image.

Unity of God, unity of the universe and unity of mankind are the spirit which moves Judaism.

Logic is the scales of all science.

The creation of a single man is as weighty a thing as the creation of the whole universe.

Man resembles the world and is called a little world, a microcosm, a world in itself.

God has created nothing more distinguished than the mind.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

There does not exist a vacuum in nature.

For everything that the Lord created, He created its opposite: He made Heaven and He made Hell.

Rain is the husband of the earth.

Look upon the rainbow and bless its Maker!

The Redemption to come will be as great a marvel as Creation.

A tree whose branches are abundant but whose roots are few, the wind comes and uproots and overturns it.

The branches are lost when the root is.

Nature allows that the roots shall reign over the branches.

Instead of being annoyed with roses that have thorns, you should marvel at thorns encircled by roses.

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it, just feed it!

Without unity there is nothing.

Just as the world cannot exist without water, so it cannot be without wisdom.