Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes About Giving

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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.

  • People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

  • Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.117, Stanford University Press
  • There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.15, Macmillan
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