Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes About Understanding

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  • Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

    "Who Is Man?". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Chapter 5, 1963.
  • We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”
  • The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.46, Macmillan
  • Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.120, Macmillan
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