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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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 course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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