Gabriel Josipovici quotes

Gabriel Josipovici quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.”
-- Gabriel Josipovici

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“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”
“It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
“These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.”
“As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.”
“But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.”

Source : "Abu Abbas: from terrorist to peace advocate" by Rob Reynolds, www.cnn.com. May 10, 1996.
“Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Iâ€™d like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in othersâ€™ eyes, reflected.”
“But since then, it seemed he had been caught up in a hurricane, whirling from one thing to another with scarcely enough time to catch a breath. Perhaps that was good. Because if he stopped and took the time to think about things too deeply, dark thoughts started to intrude.”
“There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”
“Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.”

Source : Smithsonian Magazine, December 1995.

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