David Ben GurionThinkers

Color is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it. . . To work with color is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory which is both disturbing and pleasurable.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Deceit's worse kind is self-deceit.

Democracy's test is freedom to criticize.

Israel is a country built on people rather than territory whereby people's faith is their passport.

Israel is a place where, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

The Jew is one for whom the past is their very being.

Land is the source of life and creation, of culture and true independence.

The Miracle is, in fact, being realistic. To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

Thought is a strenuous art -few practice it, and then only at rare times.