No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.