When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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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 road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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We worship God through our questions.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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