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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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