As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIs not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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 religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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