Isaac Israeli Quotes
Isaac ben Solomon Israeli was an Egyptian-born Jewish physician and philosopher, often counted as the first medieval Jewish Neoplatonist. He served as court physician to the early Fatimid caliphs in Kairouan in what is now Tunisia. The quotes below are attributed to Isaac Israeli, organized by topic.
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Isaac Israeli on God
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Attributed to Isaac Israeli:
“All things proceed from the One by the mediation of intellect and soul.”
Isaac Israeli on Knowledge
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Attributed to Isaac Israeli:
“Philosophy is the human knowledge of the soul, of the body, and of God.”
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“Candour is the brightest gem of criticism .”
Literary Journals . -
“The wisdom of the wise , and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation .”
Quotation ; since at least 1986 a paraphrased form misattributed to his son Benjamin Disraeli has often been quoted: "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. -
“Quotation ; since at least 1986 a paraphrased form misattributed to his son Benjamin Disraeli has often been quoted: "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
The wisdom of the wise , and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation . -
“If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.”
Royal Promotions . -
“Modes of Salutation, and Amicable Ceremonies, Observed in Various Nations .”
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion. -
“The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.”
Modes of Salutation, and Amicable Ceremonies, Observed in Various Nations . -
“Modes of Salutation, and Amicable Ceremonies, Observed in Various Nations .”
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical. -
“Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.”
Of Suppressors and Dilapidators of Manuscripts .
Isaac Israeli on Life
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“An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age”
The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius(1795–1822) | Ch. VIII.
Isaac Israeli on Mind
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Attributed to Isaac Israeli:
“Knowledge of the soul is the gateway to knowledge of God.”
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“Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.”
Quotation .
Isaac Israeli on Nature
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“To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.”
Modes of Salutation, and Amicable Ceremonies, Observed in Various Nations .
Isaac Israeli on Truth
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Attributed to Isaac Israeli:
“Truth is the correspondence of thought to reality.”
Isaac Israeli on Virtue
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Attributed to Isaac Israeli:
“Wisdom is the highest good attainable by human beings.”