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To be is to stand for.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Analysis Dignity Intuition Realization Simple Stand
Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Art Defined Giving Outlive Philosophy Problem Question Right Solution
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Contempt Far Kingdom Man Peril Plain Retain Share Task War
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Autobiography Course Future Life Unpredictable Writing
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Amass Face Goal Healing Higher Moment Scared Spiritual Wealth
It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Beyond Exist Force Mind Physical Quality
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Compassion Greatest Man Passion Person Religious
(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Attain Fulfillment Human Human Being People Pertain Shared
In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Appreciation First Manipulation Surround Way
I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Against Learn Mut Still Surprise
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Live Must Often People Philosophy Relevant Wisdom World
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Everytime Forgot Loss Man Memory Message Messenger
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Able Essence Hard Work Man Mindset Positive
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Deeds Speech End Fade Power Sound State
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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Cure Hysteria Incursion Necessary Period Recovery Solitude
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Empty Enter Live Perishing Waiting
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Amazement Attitude Faith History Nature Radical Religious
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Advance Alarming Appreciation Civilization Mind State Symptom Wonder
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Gain Happiness Labor Love Misery
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Become Company Ineffable Part Word
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless
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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Arrogance Betray Cowardice Follow Intelligence Rejection Worship
When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Ask Mindset Motivation Positive Success Wonder
Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Church God Greater Seem Separation State
The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Awake Cosmos Endeavor Involved Man Mystic
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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Alien Energy Imposed Law Longer Particular Principle Revolt Society

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