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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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This 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.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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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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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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