There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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