Isaac Leib Peretz - Man Quotes

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The soul is imprisoned in the body, and the Lord... built two windows in the wall of the prison... Unfortunately, the windows have curtains—eyelids; and a man whose soul is impure, feeling himself scrutinized, lets down the curtains and conceals the soul.

Isaac Leib Peretz

You are the weakest and the least, and the last to be redeemed.... You will be freed, when man will rise above the earthly, when human worms will turn into human eagles.

Isaac Leib Peretz

There are melodies that must have words... and melodies that sing themselves without words. The latter are of a higher grade. But these, too, depend on a voice and lips,... hence are not yet altogether pure, not yet genuine spirit. Genuine melody sings itself without a voice. It sings inside, within the heart, in man's very entrails!

Isaac Leib Peretz

Man has been likened to an earthen pot.... You have but to tap the pot with your finger. If it rings back full and true, all is well; there is your perfect pot. And if not—man, alas, has been likened to a broken potsherd.

Isaac Leib Peretz

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

Isaac Leib Peretz

Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.

Isaac Leib Peretz