Man Wishes To Be Confirmed In His

In Philosophical Anthropology, ... Where The Subject Is Man In His Wholeness, The Investigator Cannot Content Himself, As In Anthropology As An Individual Science, With Considering Man As Another Part Of Nature And With Ignoring The Fact That He, The Investigator, Is Himself A Man And Experiences This Humanity In His Inner Experience In A Way That He Simply Cannot Experience Any Part Of Nature.

Solitude Is The Place Of Purification.

There Are Three Principles In A Man's Being And Life, The Principle Of Thought, The Principle Of Speech, And The Principle Of Action. The Origin Of All Conflict Between Me And My Fellow-men Is That I Do Not Say What I Mean And I Don't Do What I Say.

When A Man Grows Aware Of A New Way In Which To Serve God, He Should Carry It Around With Him Secretly, And Without Uttering It, For Nine Months, As Though He Were Pregnant With It, And Let Others Know Of It Only At The End Of That Time, As Though It Were A Birth.

The Biblical Passage Which Says Of Abraham And The Three Visiting Angels: "and He Stood Over Them Under The Tree And They Did Eat" Is Interpreted By Rabbi Zusya To The Effect That Man Stands Above The Angels, Because He Knows Something Unknown To Them, Namely, That Eating May Be Hallowed By The Eater's Intention.... Any Natural Act, If Hallowed, Leads To God, And Nature Needs Man For What No Angel Can Perform On It, Namely, Its Hallowing.