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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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