Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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