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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
Philosopher
Rabbi
University Teacher
Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
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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. ... Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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. Mankind will not die for lack of information it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal everything is incredible never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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It is not enough for me to ask question I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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