The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThis may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThis 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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA soul can create only when alone.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELReality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod 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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELRemember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELNew insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL