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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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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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