50 Quotes by Israel Zangwill

"Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories."

"As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common."

"The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition."

"America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!"

"Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan – spoiled."

"Everything changes but change."

"No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you – he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman."

"Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world’s people is the faith that is our own."

"The Creator has – I say it in all reverence – drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie."

"In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera."