The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen 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 of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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