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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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God 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.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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