Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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