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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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