Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere 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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Every little deed counts.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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 essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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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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