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“Short is the way from need to greed.”
― The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence
― The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence
“When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.”
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.”
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
― God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
“In the absence of significant others, I had the liberating feeling of being absent from myself.”
― The Divorce
― The Divorce
“He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.”
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Political Philosophy and Ethics
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