"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

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הקוטביות היא תכונה הכרחית של כל הדברים. המתח, הניגוד והסתירה מאפיינים את המציאות כולה.

א.י. השל, אלוהים מבקש את האדם, הוצ'  מאגנס, תרגום עזן מאיר-לוי, עמ'  269

Polarity is an essential trait of all things. Tension, contrast and contradiction characterize all of reality.

A.J. Heschel, God in Search of Man, FSG, p. 341