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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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