The Jewish Wisdom Database

Alms for the needy cannot be deemed a dole.

Money is a good and handsome thing, it is men who have spoilt it.

No nation can be redeemed save by itself.

Patience can and will always be based on reciprocity.

If a people cannot help itself, it cannot be helped at all.

To look for absolute justice among politicians, that is charming simplicity!

Build your home in such a way that a stranger may feel happy in your midst!

Great talent must eventually bring forth great fruit.

Tolerance can be based, and it will be based, on reciprocity.

If you but will it, it is no fairy tale. If you will it, it is not a dream.

The Jews have one way of saving themselves---a return to their own people and an emigration to their own Land.

The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

In Basle I founded the Jewish State. If I said it today, it would be greeted with laughter; but in five years, perhaps, certainly in fifty years, everyone will see it. A State is founded essentially on the will of the people for the State. (September 30, 1897)

Every creed of man was once a dream.