Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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