Daniel

“Whether or not one accepts this last explanation—which I first heard from an Orthodox rabbi—the human being could indeed be regarded as part animal and part divine because human life is a constant battle between the animal and the divine.”
― Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible: Genesis

“On the Sabbath, we are prohibited from milacha, to affirm there is more to our life than work: human beings have value even when not producing.”
― Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible: Genesis

“The logical argument is this: How does the atheist explain existence? Why is there anything? To that, the atheist has no answer.”
― Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible: Genesis

“heard it myself. . . . I was not asleep . . . I was sitting up,” he said still more timidly. “I listened a long while. The assistant superintendent came. . . . Everyone ran out on to the stairs from all the flats.” “No one has been here. That’s the blood crying in your ears. When there’s no outlet for it and it gets clotted, you begin fancying things. . . . Will you eat something?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment