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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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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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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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. 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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. 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 built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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