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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA 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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All action is vicarious faith.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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