Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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