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Things Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
- 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,…
- The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space;…
- 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…
- 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…
- Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the…
- 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…
- to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — 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
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle