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“Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced with the national consciousness into one organic whole. It is primarily the expression of a nationality whose history for thousands of years coincides with the history of the development of a humanity and the Jews are a nation which, having once acted as the leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected with the rest of civilized nations.”

Source: The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question

“In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative life a man may, with now purified mental gaze, pass on to the contemplation of the Divine Light.”

Men Firsts May Light Practice Divine Saint Vices Active Contemplation Good Work Contemplative Active Life Divine Light Contemplative Life Seville

Author:Isidore of Seville

“Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).”

Men Life Depends Hero Activity Aspect Active Corrections Contemplative Active Life Contemplative Life

Author:Ananda Coomaraswamy

“I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.”

Century Capacity Active Involvement Active Life Precocious

Author:Rene Cassin

“The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.”

Years Done Three Simple Records Mankind Bible Philosopher Active Discourse Moralist Active Life

Author:William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces at the same time contemplation and action, as does yours, by God's grace.”

Knows Doe Action Life Is Faith Perfect Grace Embrace Active Contemplation God's Grace Contemplative Active Life Contemplative Life

Book:Correspondence, Conferences, Documents

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents

“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.”

Ifs Inspirational Hard Enough Dream Wish Sacrifice Dreams Come True Our Dreams Follow Your Dreams Chase Your Dreams Dreams Do Come True Living The Dream Active Life True Dreams Without Sacrifice Dreams Can Come True Fruitful Life

Author:James M. Barrie

“The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to the ideologue, who is likewise devoid of common sense, independent ego, culture, intuitive intelligence, etc.: all the ideologue has to orient himself by is the formalist or abstractivist directives inlaid in modern mass-culture. Both are forms of the True Believer, minds in whom factors of self-active life are reduced to negligibility and pathos reigns.”