Vilna Gaon quotes

Vilna Gaon quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits.”
-- Vilna Gaon

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“The essence of the Redemption depends upon learningÂ Kabbalah”
-- Vilna Gaon

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“The goal of the Redemption is the redemption of truth.”
-- Vilna Gaon

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“I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."”
“Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...”
“The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.”
“Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.”

Source : "Islam Is a Faith of Reason". Interview with Stefan Aust and Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. October 12, 2006.
“Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.”
“They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative”
“Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.”
“Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.”
“Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.”
“Negative attitudes bring negative results.”

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