Self-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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