Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: January 11, 1907 - December 23, 1972

Topics

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We should eat less meat - all of us - and we should use less leather. I mean, that's reality.

Jochen Zeitz

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Just to continue a space program because it's a space program? No, I don't think we have an obligation for that.

John Glenn

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As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

John Hurt

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I don't particularly love watching myself on camera.

Janet Varney

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Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.

Dick Thornburgh

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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

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When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

Bruce Dern

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I knew that I would have to leave Venezuela in order to figure out who I was.

Arca

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Part of the intro to life in the public eye is, you get a bit of attention from fashion designers.

Antoni Porowski

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I remember Tim Meadows gave me a radio. It was a radio he didn't want anymore. I gave it to my grandmother, and she had it 'til the day she died. To me, it was, 'I got a thing from Tim Meadows!' I think my grandmother was like, 'I got a thing from my grandson!'

Wyatt Cenac

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Man - a being in search of meaning.

Plato

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I'm kind of kooky, but do I look like a religious nut?

Peggy Lipton

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