Israel Zangwill
Novelist
1864-01-21
Quotes by Israel Zangwill
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It takes two men to make one brother.
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The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
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It takes two men to make one brother.
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The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
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Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
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No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
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In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
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The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
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America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming ...
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