Iwan Bloch quotes

“The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings”
-- Iwan Bloch

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“In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.”
-- Iwan Bloch

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“I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.”

“My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.”

“Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?”

“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”

“The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.”

“The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap”

“We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.”

“Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

“The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

“God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (1917). “The Rise of David Levinsky: A Novel”