to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELto become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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