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One Who Is Rebellious:To obey commandments of which merely the ear is aware,
Yet remain deaf to urges that shake the whole being;
To regard as good the former,
Which reveal the soul so as to abandon…
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy.Born in Pittsburgh, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was brought up in Oakland, California. She graduated from Radcliffe College in…
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Photographer Unknown
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Venice, Kingdom of Italy (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1908
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The conventional pattern of living, based on propriety, on the requisites of good character and conformity to law—this corresponds to the way of the world of order. Every rebellion against this…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1914
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This bronze plaque, one of the many decorative art objects produced in the workshops of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, depicts the biblical prophet Jeremiah, whose name is…
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Boris Schatz
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1911
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Alfred Bernheim’s intimate portrait of Hannah Arendt portrays her as casual and self-confident, lounging on a couch and smoking a cigarette. Arendt was one of the most famous intellectuals of the…
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Alfred Bernheim
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Date unknown, mid-20th century
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Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān, composed by the Muslim philosopher Abū Bakr ibn Tufayl al-Qaysi (1110–1185), relates the story of Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān, literally “Alive, son of Awake,” as he grows up alone on a deserted…
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Solomon Norzi
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1527
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To the Most Serene Prince and to the Most Honorable and Wise Senators of the Venetian Republic
Free Wisdom befits a Free Republic, most Serene Prince, most honorable Senators, whom Freedom of their…
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Isaac Cardoso
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Verona, Republic of Venice (Verona, Italy)
Date:
1673
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It was explained earlier in part 2 that faith is [like a] possession that is, it is a possession that belongs to man’s soul, the way knowledge belongs to the soul…
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Judah ben Eleazar
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Kashan, Safavid Empire (Kashan, Iran)
Date:
1686
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[ . . . ] Philo: I have already told you that the cognition of the generating nature is meant to direct them towards their natural perfection, without any other…
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Judah Abravanel
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1512
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Maimonides, the greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages, was of the opinion that the principles and methods of metaphysics formed part of the traditional lore of the sages of the Mishnah and…
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Isaac Herzog
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Ireland, Ireland
Date:
1929