Abraham Heschel (1907-1972) THEMES ON THIS PAGE:  1. THE INEFFABLE  2. CREATING HIGHER NEEDS  3. RADICAL AMAZEMENT Abraham Heschel (1907-1972) was a Jewish American thinker, rabbi, philosopher, and activist of social justice. He was born in Poland, and then studied at the University of Berlin. He was briefly arrested by the Gestapo, then deported to Poland, which he managed to leave just before the Nazi invasion. Eventually he went to the USA, where he became an influential thinker both within the...

HERACLITUS Heraclitus lived around the year 500 BC, in the Greek city of Ephesus in Asia Minor. Little is known about his life, but later ancient historians wrote that he was from an influential family; that he was a snob and wrote in a difficult language so that only few would understand him (hence the name “Heraclitus the obscure”); and that he was a pessimist (hence the name “the weeping philosopher”). He died of some illness at the age of 60....