It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

When we study history we obtain a more profound insight into human nature by instituting a comparison between the present and former states of society.

We understand more than we know.

We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.

An intelligent society would have made of them people like everybody else!

Une société intelligente en aurait fait des gens comme tout le monde!

Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible.

...as human beings we are a lot more sophisticated about each other than we are about the abstract world.

Jews are like everybody else, only more so.

I so much think of the Torah as just a story and, like, a beautiful window into the way people thought thousands of years ago and the way people were thousands of years ago.

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

We all like to think we’re more complex than a two-sentence explanation.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

Understanding how DNA makes us who we are will teach us to be more tolerant of each other.