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Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes about Understanding

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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel
Lying, Understanding, Wonder
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.46, Macmillan

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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel
Understanding, Roles, World
"Who Is Man?". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Chapter 5, 1963.

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