11-12-2023, 07:51 PM
All the Jewish people I have known, and that is quite a few in my travels, have all been scathing, highly intelligent, rigid thinkers, with an eye for the main chance, not tolerant of other peoples weaknesses, and not kindly.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche