Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.


Insecurity of Freedom (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1955) - ISBN: 9781466801165

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is...

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is...

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is...

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is...