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- 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…
- Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely,…
- There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
- All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
- This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and…
- 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…
- Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the…
- God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn…
- Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
- A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to…
- Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
- ...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than…
- Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle