Hillel Quotes

“If I am not for myself who is for me? And if I am only for myself what am I? And if not now when?”

“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am I?”

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”

“If I am not for myself who is for me?”

“God hardening Pharaoh’s heart causes the world to fear God and not think they can sin to the point at which they want to repent.”

“Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee do not do that to them.”

“The challenge of the writer is to transform—artistically and imaginatively—a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story.”

“An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece. Human beings, as Singer noted, have contradictions.”

“If not you, then who? If not now, when?”