Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSolitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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This 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.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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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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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Every little deed counts.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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