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** Said in 1910<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jewish_Curriculum_and_Resource_Guide_for/Pz3UyHrnyqQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Learning,+learning,+learning%E2%80%94that+is+the+secret+of+Jewish+survival%22&pg=PA229&printsec=frontcover |title=Jewish Curriculum and Resource Guide for the Armed Forces: Resource guide update (1984) |date=1985 |publisher=Department of Defense |language=en}}</ref> | ** Said in 1910<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Jewish_Curriculum_and_Resource_Guide_for/Pz3UyHrnyqQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Learning,+learning,+learning%E2%80%94that+is+the+secret+of+Jewish+survival%22&pg=PA229&printsec=frontcover |title=Jewish Curriculum and Resource Guide for the Armed Forces: Resource guide update (1984) |date=1985 |publisher=Department of Defense |language=en}}</ref> | ||
*The heart of the people—that is the foundation on which the land will be regenerated. | *The heart of the people—that is the foundation on which the land will be regenerated. | ||
**Ahad Ha’am, | **Ahad Ha’am, “[https://benyehuda.org/collections/6530 The Wrong Way],” 1889. Translated in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67667/pg67667-images.html Ten Essays]''. | ||
*More than Israel has guarded the Sabbath, the Sabbath has guarded Israel. | *More than Israel has guarded the Sabbath, the Sabbath has guarded Israel. | ||
**From “[https://benyehuda.org/read/2786 Sabbath and Zionism]” | **From “[https://benyehuda.org/read/2786 Sabbath and Zionism]” | ||
*In Palestine we can and should found for ourselves a spiritual center of our nationality. | *In Palestine we can and should found for ourselves a spiritual center of our nationality. | ||
**In | **In “[https://benyehuda.org/read/2913 Dr. Pinsker & His Pamphlet].” See quote cited by himself at “''A Spiritual Centre''” in the collection [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67667/pg67667-images.html ''Ten Essays''] | ||
*[Zionism] provides an opportunity for communal work and political excitement; his emotions find an outlet in a field of activity which is not subservient to non-Jews; and he feels that, thanks to this ideal, he stands once more spiritually erect and has regained his personal dignity, without overmuch trouble and purely by his own efforts…. For it is not the attainment of the ideal that he heeds; its pursuit alone is sufficient to cure him of his spiritual disease, which is that of an inferiority complex, and the loftier and more distant the ideal, the greater its power to exalt. | *[Zionism] provides an opportunity for communal work and political excitement; his emotions find an outlet in a field of activity which is not subservient to non-Jews; and he feels that, thanks to this ideal, he stands once more spiritually erect and has regained his personal dignity, without overmuch trouble and purely by his own efforts…. For it is not the attainment of the ideal that he heeds; its pursuit alone is sufficient to cure him of his spiritual disease, which is that of an inferiority complex, and the loftier and more distant the ideal, the greater its power to exalt. | ||
** | **In [https://benyehuda.org/read/6303 The Jewish State and the Jewish Problem], translated in [https://archive.org/details/zionistideahisto00hert/page/265/mode/2up ''The Zionist idea'']. | ||
*What is national existence if not the existence of a national spirit? What is a nation’s importance if not the importance of the spiritual treasures it has added to human culture? | *What is national existence if not the existence of a national spirit? What is a nation’s importance if not the importance of the spiritual treasures it has added to human culture? | ||
**Quoted in Ha-Shiloah magazine. Volume 6, 1902. | **Quoted in Ha-Shiloah magazine. Volume 6, 1902. | ||
*The national center will not be a “secure home of refuge” for our people, but it will be a home of healing for its spirit. | *The national center will not be a “secure home of refuge” for our people, but it will be a home of healing for its spirit. | ||
**In Summa Summarum | **In [https://benyehuda.org/read/8637 Summa Summarum]. Translated in [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67667/pg67667-images.html ''Ten Essays'']. | ||
*Our very existence in dispersion is possible only because we feel ourselves to be “the aristocrats of history.” | *Our very existence in dispersion is possible only because we feel ourselves to be “the aristocrats of history.” | ||
**From an April 17, 1910 letter to A. V. Ravnitzki. Quoted in ''Essays, Letters, Memoirs'' by Ahad Ha'am, [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Essays_Letters_Memoirs/N9ptAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Our+very+existence+in+dispersion+is+possible+only+because+we+feel%22&dq=%22Our+very+existence+in+dispersion+is+possible+only+because+we+feel%22&printsec=frontcover p. 268] | **From an April 17, 1910 letter to A. V. Ravnitzki. Quoted in ''Essays, Letters, Memoirs'' by Ahad Ha'am, [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Essays_Letters_Memoirs/N9ptAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Our+very+existence+in+dispersion+is+possible+only+because+we+feel%22&dq=%22Our+very+existence+in+dispersion+is+possible+only+because+we+feel%22&printsec=frontcover p. 268] | ||
*The salvation of Israel will be achieved by Prophets, not by diplomats. | *The salvation of Israel will be achieved by Prophets, not by diplomats. | ||
**In his essay “[https://benyehuda.org/read/8378 The First Zionist Congress]” (Translated in | **In his essay “[https://benyehuda.org/read/8378 The First Zionist Congress]” (Translated in [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67667/pg67667-images.html ''Ten Essays'']) | ||
*After two thousand years of untold misery and suffering, the Jewish people cannot possibly be content with attaining at last to the position of a small and insignificant nation, with a State tossed about like a ball between its powerful neighbours. | *After two thousand years of untold misery and suffering, the Jewish people cannot possibly be content with attaining at last to the position of a small and insignificant nation, with a State tossed about like a ball between its powerful neighbours. | ||
**In his essay “[https://benyehuda.org/read/8378 The First Zionist Congress]” (Translated in [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67667/pg67667-images.html ''Ten Essays'']) | **In his essay “[https://benyehuda.org/read/8378 The First Zionist Congress]” (Translated in [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67667/pg67667-images.html ''Ten Essays'']) | ||