Quotes by : Jennifer Michael Hecht

[Based upon the message of "nothing new under the sun" in Ecclesiastes,] If nothing ever changes, then....

When They Die We Change Our Minds About Them When they die we change our minds about them. While they....

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying....

Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation.....

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played....

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution....

Jack Miles's wonderful literary reading of the Hebrew Bible as a biography of God offers the insight....

We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers....