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Yeshayahu Leibowitz Quotes

1903–1994 Israel

Yeshayahu Leibowitz (29 January 1903 – 18 August 1994) was an Israeli public intellectual; professor of biochemistry, organic chemistry, and neurophysiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and a polymath known for his outspoken opinions on Judaism, ethics, religion, and politics.

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The religion of halakhic practice is the religion of life itself.

Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State (1995)

The essence of Jewish faith is consistent with no embodiment other than the system of halakhic praxis.

Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State (1995)

Our security has been diminished rather than enhanced as a result of the conquests in this war.

The Territories (1968)

Only a religion addressed to life's prose, a religion of the dull routine of daily activity, is worthy of the name.

Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State (1995)

Most characteristic of the Halakhah is its lack of pathos.

Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State (1995)

Emancipation from the bondage of nature can only be brought about by the religion of Mitzvoth

Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State (1995)

From a religious point of view the triadic classification of being as nature, spirit, and God has no validity. There is only the dyad: nature, which includes the human spirit, and God. The only way man can break the bonds of nature is by cleaving to God; by acting in compliance with the divine will rather than in accordance with the human will.

Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State (1995)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Yeshayahu Leibowitz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.