To be is to stand for.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA soul can create only when alone.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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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.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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 utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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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 a messenger who forgot the message.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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