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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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