Who Is Man? Quotes

“The most important decision a thinker makes is reflected in what he comes to consider the most important problem. According to Albert Camus, "There is only one really serious philosophical problem: and that is suicide." May I differ and suggest that there is only one really serious problem: and that is martyrdom. Is there anything worth dying for?

We can only live the truth if we have the power to die for it. Suicide is escape from evil and surrender to absurdity. A martyr is a witness to the holy in spite of evil absurdity.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, Who Is Man?

“To the religious man it is as if things stood with their backs to him, their faces turned to God, as if the glory of things consisted in their being an object of divine care.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, Who Is Man?