Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote

One must forget many clichés in order to behold a single image. Insight is the beginning of perceptions to come rather than the extension of perceptions gone by. Conventional seeing, operating as it does with patterns and coherences, is a way of seeing the present in the past tense. Insight is an attempt to think in the present. … insight is knowledge at first sight.


The Prophets (1962), Introduction.


One must forget many clichés in order to behold a single image. Insight is the beginning of perceptions to come rather than the extension of...

One must forget many clichés in order to behold a single image. Insight is the beginning of perceptions to come rather than the extension of...

One must forget many clichés in order to behold a single image. Insight is the beginning of perceptions to come rather than the extension of...

One must forget many clichés in order to behold a single image. Insight is the beginning of perceptions to come rather than the extension of...