In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAcceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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