Did Jew Know? Quotes

“May you be a person of leisure and take a daily nap, so that the lice in your shirt marry the bedbugs in your mattress and their offspring take up residence in your underwear.”
― Emily Stone, Did Jew Know?: A Handy Primer on the Customs, Culture & Practice of the Chosen People

“Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.” –LEON TROTSKY, THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED”
― Emily Stone, Did Jew Know?: A Handy Primer on the Customs, Culture & Practice of the Chosen People

“Spinoza? I Hardly Know Her! Whether or not Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was an atheist wunderkind who saw reason as the end of superstition or a heretic with a semi-decent Latin teacher, he changed the course of intellectual history with his Ethics. Say what you will about what happens next, but the mere fact that a seventeeth-century Jew can light upon the concept of reality as perfection without ever having attended a yoga class is reason enough to include him in this illustrious tome. Other big ideas: Man is free to think and feel as reason dictates, and it’s not reality that blows; rather, it’s our perception of reality. Snuggle up to that on a cold, dark night.”
― Emily Stone, Did Jew Know?: A Handy Primer on the Customs, Culture & Practice of the Chosen People