Painter on the Road to Tarascon by Vincent van Gogh ...

"...we see the present in the light of what we already know."

A.J.Heschel, Man is Not Alone, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc p. 6

"...רואים אנו את  ההווה באור מה שידוע לנו זה מכבר."

א.י. השל , האדם אינו לבדו, טרם פורסם בעברית, התרגום שלי - ג'ף

What smites us with unquenchable amazement is not that which we grasp and are able to convey but that which lies within our reach but beyond our grasp; not the quantitataive aspect of nature but something qualitative; not what is beyond our range in time and space but the true meaning, source and end of being, in other words, the ineffable.

A.J.Heschel, Man is Not Alone, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc p. 4 - 5

"Behind almost every sentence of Heschel's works one can sense his awareness that reality is infinitely more rich and complex than any verbal formulation can disclose."

Fritz Rothschild, from  the introduction to "Between God and Man" a selection of writings by Heschel, selected and edited by Rothschild, Harper & Brothers, p.10

ללא מילים וללא תרגום - השל על הנפלא מתאור

The stirring in our hearts when watching the star-studded sky is something no language can declare.

A.J.Heschel, Man is Not Alone, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc p. 4

Most - and often the best - of what goes on in us is our own secret; we have to wrestle with it ourselves.

A.J.Heschel, Man is Not Alone, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc p. 4

A sensitive person knows that the intrinsic, the most essential, is never expressed.

A.J.Heschel, Man is Not Alone, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc p. 4

Only those who live on borrowed words believe in their gift of expression.

A.J.Heschel, Man is Not Alone, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc p. 4