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About David
King David (d. ca. 961 BC) was according to the Hebrew Bible, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel.
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“Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, lead me in the way everlasting.”
“בני אבשלום בני
בני אבשלום
מי יתן מותי אני תחתיך
אבשלום בני בני
• Beni Abshalom, beni!
Beni Abshalom!
Mi yitten muthi ani thachteicha.
Abshalom, beni! beni!”
בני אבשלום
מי יתן מותי אני תחתיך
אבשלום בני בני
• Beni Abshalom, beni!
Beni Abshalom!
Mi yitten muthi ani thachteicha.
Abshalom, beni! beni!”
“Wash me O Lord for my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight. That you may be found just when you speak, and blameless when you judge.”
“Thou comest to me with a sword, and with A spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. [...] And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with the sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.”
“Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a treek planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers”
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David on Philosophical pessimism 20 quotes
“All the goods of life united would not make a very happy man; but all the ills united would make a wretch indeed; and any one of them almost (and who can be free from every one?) nay often the absence of one good (and who can possess all?) is sufficient to render life ineligible.”
David on Antinatalism 18 quotes
“Humans inflict untold suffering and death on many billions of animals every year, and the overwhelming majority of humans are heavily complicit.”
David on United States Navy 14 quotes
“Regulations of the Navy provide that medical officers shall exercise no military authority.”
David on Reason 13 quotes
“If we reason a priori, anything may appear able to produce anything.”
David on Eugenics 12 quotes
“’’’The blood of a nation determines its history.’’’”
David on Wild animal suffering 11 quotes
“It is easy to romanticise, say, tigers or lions and cats. We admire their magnificent beauty, strength and agility. But we would regard their notional human counterparts as wanton psychopaths of the worst kind.”
David on Republican Party (United States) 8 quotes
“I want to be among those in the party who are willing to live up to Republican principles.”
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David on Tank 8 quotes
“Russia continues to produce T-90M tanks, the best tank in the world — according to Putin anyway – at a slow, steady rate. As soon as these tanks appear on the front, they are spotted by the omnipresent surveillance drones which watch every inch of the front, and targeted.”
David on Love 7 quotes
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“Ashes to ashes, funk to funky We know Major Tom's a junkie Strung out in heaven's high Hitting an all-time low”
David on Global warming 7 quotes
“When I was a boy in the 1900s, the carbon dioxide level was still below 300 parts per million. This year, it reached 382, the highest figure for hundreds of thousands of years.”
David on Animals 7 quotes
“We seem to be in the place of God to them, to be his vice-regents, and empowered to receive homage from them in his name. And we are obliged, by the same tenure, to be their guardians and benefactors.”
David on Negative utilitarianism 7 quotes
“[P]lanning and implementing the extinction of all sentient life couldn't be undertaken painlessly. Even contemplating such an enterprise would provoke distress. Thus a negative utilitarian is not compelled to argue for the apocalyptic solution.”
David on Fear 6 quotes
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“Disease is almost as old as man himself; and so must have been medicine.”
David on Christian anarchism 6 quotes
View all 6 quotes on Christian anarchism →David on Prana 6 quotes
“Mantras can work to hold and sustain our prana. Prana, [we could say], is the spirit of mantra. Mantra in turn is the expression of prana.”
David on Animal rights 6 quotes
“Humans inflict untold suffering and death on many billions of animals every year, and the overwhelming majority of humans are heavily complicit.”
David on Libertarianism 6 quotes
“The issue should not be government. It should not be unlimited and unalloyed idolatry of personal property, which is the path that the libertarian movement has gone down.”
David on Infinity 6 quotes
“When we turn to the question, what is the essence of the infinite, we must first give ourselves an account as to the meaning the infinite has for reality: let us then see what physics teaches us about it.”
David on World Food Programme 6 quotes
“I was out in the middle of Niger. And somebody just comes busting into our meeting, said, 'Nobel Peace Prize! Nobel Peace Prize!' And I'm like, "Well, yeah, wow, who won it?' And they're like, 'We did!' That was the greatest surprise in my life. And wow, wow, wow!”
David on Right to die 6 quotes
“I shall argue that although suicide is always tragic (because it always involves serious costs), we ought to be less judgmental about it, whether psychiatrically or morally, than people usually are. Suicide is sometimes a reasonable—even the most reasonable— response to a particular human’s predicament (rather than to the human predicament in general).”
David on United States 5 quotes
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David on Iris Kyle 14 quotes
View all 14 quotes on Iris Kyle →David on Ted Kennedy 14 quotes
“It’s not that during Kennedy’s lifetime there was total silence about his uglier habits; it’s that they weren’t seen as disqualifying. But with these facts on the public record for decades, and the evolution of our culture over those years, more critical portraits of Kennedy are thankfully emerging, if in fits and starts.”
David on Donald Trump 7 quotes
“If he came to visit our country, I think he would unite us all against him.”
David on David A. Ridenour 7 quotes
“Stop complaining about the price of your gas. Be thankful your car doesn't run on bottled water.”
David on Max Stirner 7 quotes
“The conflict between individual and society, like the conflict between the child and mother, comes from the adult preference for a less suffocating environment, and society, like the mother, must strive to destroy the individual's autonomy and inhibit her maturity if the original relationship is to be maintained.”
David on Elvis Presley 6 quotes
“Elvis Presley. It's a big, all-American icon with a sense of duty...”
David on David Reich (geneticist) 6 quotes
“The mixture of highly differentiated populations is a recurrent process in our history.”
David on Anthony Bourdain 6 quotes
“Possessing a restless intelligence and curiosity like his can be exhausting. Bourdain was a natural writer because he was constantly observing everything around him, recording the best and the worst, processing, contextualizing, drawing out meaning.”
David on Baruch Spinoza 5 quotes
“[Spinoza] — the deepest, most original thinker to emerge from our people from the end of the Bible to the birth of Einstein.”
David on David Mumford 5 quotes
“I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.”
David on Austen Chamberlain 4 quotes
“Chamberlain is a Liberal.”
Quotes About David
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Pirkei Avot on David
“Whenever love depends on some selfish end, when the end passes away, the love passes away; but if it does not depend on some selfish end, it will never pass away. Which love depended on a selfish end? This was the love of Amnon and Tamar. And which did not depend on a selfish end? This was the love of David and Jonathan.”
Steven Pinker on David 3 quotes
“Saul is eventually overthrown by his son-in-law David, who absorbs the southern tribes of Judah, conquers Jerusalem, and makes it the capital of a kingdom that will last four centuries. David would come to be celebrated in story, song, and sculpture, and his six-pointed star would symbolize his people for three thousand years. Christians too would revere him as the forerunner of Jesus. But in Hebrew scripture David is not just the “sweet singer of Israel,” the chiseled poet who plays a harp and composes the Psalms. After he makes his name by killing Goliath, David recruits a gang of guerrillas, extorts wealth from his fellow citizens at swordpoint, and fights as a mercenary for the Philistines. These achievements make Saul jealous: the women in his court are singing, “Saul has killed by the thousands, but David by the tens of thousands.” So Saul plots to have him assassinated. David narrowly escapes before staging a successful coup. When David becomes king, he keeps up his hard-earned reputation for killing by the tens of thousands. After his general Joab “wasted the country of the children of Ammon,” David “brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes.” Finally he manages to do something that God considers immoral: he orders a census. To punish David for this lapse, God kills seventy thousand of his citizens.”
Jason Silverman on David
“Still, sports history is filled with famous trash talkers. One well-known athlete, a young man named David, was able to use a verbal attack to his benefit in a battle with a heavily favored foe. "I will strike you down and cut off your head," David proclaims to his much larger enemy, Goliath, in the first chapter of the biblical book of Samuel. And the rest is trash-talking history.”
Clare Boothe Luce on David
“You may search through all the great literature of the world and you will find no words extolling marital infidelities. While it is true that the “sins of the flesh” have always been more readily forgiven to husbands than to wives, all human societies have taken a very harsh view of men who seduce—or rape—the wives or daughters of the men of their own society. When the Trojan, Paris, ran off with Helen, wife of the Greek King Menaleus, Greece fought a seven-year war against Troy, to protest the seduction and abduction of Helen. King David’s abduction and seduction of Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite, scandalized his court. It also caused that God-fearing monarch great agonies of repentance. In passing, King David’s repentance produced some of the world’s greatest poetry—perhaps, an early proof of Sigmund Freud’s theory that all the creative works of man—all his art, poetry, architecture, even his proclivity for moneymaking, political power, and Empire building, are au fond, sublimations of his consciously or subconsciously repressed sexual desires.”
Israel Finkelstein on David
“If you want me to say it simplistically, I'm proud that this nobody from nowhere became the center of Western tradition.”
About David
King David (d. ca. 961 BC) was according to the Hebrew Bible, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel.