“Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5

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