We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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