It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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A soul can create only when alone.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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