Emily Stone > Quotes

“May you be a person of leisure and take a daily nap, so that the lice in your shirt marry the bedbugs in your mattress and their offspring take up residence in your underwear.”
― Emily Stone, Did Jew Know?: A Handy Primer on the Customs, Culture & Practice of the Chosen People

“Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.” –LEON TROTSKY, THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED”
― Emily Stone, Did Jew Know?: A Handy Primer on the Customs, Culture & Practice of the Chosen People

“You and your emotions are your own worst enemy. In other words, the woman in front of you at Starbucks who takes twenty minutes to decide whether or not to get her latte with whip is not Satan, your ego is. If you do not restrict your ego, you limit your limitless potential to experience the divine light of Frappucinos.”
― Emily Stone

“Spinoza? I Hardly Know Her! Whether or not Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was an atheist wunderkind who saw reason as the end of superstition or a heretic with a semi-decent Latin teacher, he changed the course of intellectual history with his Ethics. Say what you will about what happens next, but the mere fact that a seventeeth-century Jew can light upon the concept of reality as perfection without ever having attended a yoga class is reason enough to include him in this illustrious tome. Other big ideas: Man is free to think and feel as reason dictates, and it’s not reality that blows; rather, it’s our perception of reality. Snuggle up to that on a cold, dark night.”
― Emily Stone, Did Jew Know?: A Handy Primer on the Customs, Culture & Practice of the Chosen People