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Top 25 Jennifer Michael Hecht Quotes (2025 Update)

Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “We believe each other into being.”

1. “We believe each other into being.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous.”

2. “If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment.”

3. “Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “Epistemology is still a central issue in philosophy, and we moderns are particularly vexed with the question of how we can come to know anything outside what we already know, that is, how we can climb out of our own culture’s basic assumptions, and how we can hope to see beyond our brains’ basic formation.”

4. “Epistemology is still a central issue in philosophy, and we moderns are particularly vexed with the question of how we can come to know anything outside what we already know, that is, how we can climb out of our own culture’s basic assumptions, and how we can hope to see beyond our brains’ basic formation.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.”

5. “Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “We seem obsessed with motivation, rallying ourselves to something beyond the life available to us right now, and we treat this motivation as if it were a major part of the history of wisdom, which it is not.”

6. “We seem obsessed with motivation, rallying ourselves to something beyond the life available to us right now, and we treat this motivation as if it were a major part of the history of wisdom, which it is not.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “Without the outside context of a political war between faith and reason, Epicurus does not fear that any single point he might award to the religious will be used against him. Nor is he eager to have his followers shunning prayer or ritual in order to demonstrate publicly their disbelief. Outside the context of a political war between faith and reason, more nuanced arrangements may be safely undertaken.”

7. “Without the outside context of a political war between faith and reason, Epicurus does not fear that any single point he might award to the religious will be used against him. Nor is he eager to have his followers shunning prayer or ritual in order to demonstrate publicly their disbelief. Outside the context of a political war between faith and reason, more nuanced arrangements may be safely undertaken.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “The history of doubt is not only a history of the denial of God; it is also a history of those who have grappled with the religious questions and found the possibility of other answers.”

8. “The history of doubt is not only a history of the denial of God; it is also a history of those who have grappled with the religious questions and found the possibility of other answers.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “Expect change. Accept death. Enjoy life. As Marcus Aurelius explained, the brains that got you through the troubles you have had so far will get you through any troubles yet to come.”

9. “Expect change. Accept death. Enjoy life. As Marcus Aurelius explained, the brains that got you through the troubles you have had so far will get you through any troubles yet to come.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “Death is no problem because when we are alive we are not dead and when we are dead we don’t know it. So long as you can possibly worry about it, you’ve got nothing to worry about.”

10. “Death is no problem because when we are alive we are not dead and when we are dead we don’t know it. So long as you can possibly worry about it, you’ve got nothing to worry about.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.”

11. “How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “For Epicurus, living prudently, in deep appreciation of modest pleasures, was not just the route to happiness, it was happiness.”

12. “For Epicurus, living prudently, in deep appreciation of modest pleasures, was not just the route to happiness, it was happiness.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “A lot of campaigning for food purity is a translated worry about abundance. You still eat your fill, but you agonize over the food’s contents. We are a pack of animals that allows some to have excess food while others starve. Those who have so much get finicky about what is good to eat; they become obsessed by it, re-creating scarcity for themselves so as to not feel guilty, confused, or dangerously envied.”

13. “A lot of campaigning for food purity is a translated worry about abundance. You still eat your fill, but you agonize over the food’s contents. We are a pack of animals that allows some to have excess food while others starve. Those who have so much get finicky about what is good to eat; they become obsessed by it, re-creating scarcity for themselves so as to not feel guilty, confused, or dangerously envied.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “We did not make this world... and our childhood inclinations about how to succeed in it turn out to be wrong: often our courage is needed not to dramatically change reality but to accept it and persist in it.”

14. “We did not make this world... and our childhood inclinations about how to succeed in it turn out to be wrong: often our courage is needed not to dramatically change reality but to accept it and persist in it.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “Yet one of the most important things we have to learn is how to cope with abundance and with our hunger for yet more abundance.”

15. “Yet one of the most important things we have to learn is how to cope with abundance and with our hunger for yet more abundance.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “Here, new information, new empirical data, led to a direct challenge to the way in which the gods were envisioned. This new doubt encouraged a new kind of punishment for doubt. Set up about 438 BCE, the law against Anaxagoras’s atheism held that society must “denounce those who do not believe in the divine beings or who teach doctrines about things in the sky.”

16. “Here, new information, new empirical data, led to a direct challenge to the way in which the gods were envisioned. This new doubt encouraged a new kind of punishment for doubt. Set up about 438 BCE, the law against Anaxagoras’s atheism held that society must “denounce those who do not believe in the divine beings or who teach doctrines about things in the sky.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “I draw from the absurd three consequences. Which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion.”

17. “I draw from the absurd three consequences. Which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.”

18. “We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also conveys a kind of freedom: we are not burdened with the obligation of judging whether our personality is worth maintaining, whether our life is worth living. Because living it is a duty, we are performing a good moral act just by persevering.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.”

19. “A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “One must devote oneself to figuring out that one must live for the good, for its own sake. It was a secular morality. Contemporaries did not know what to call a thing like that – he questioned their every faith, their every way of life – so they called it atheism.”

20. “One must devote oneself to figuring out that one must live for the good, for its own sake. It was a secular morality. Contemporaries did not know what to call a thing like that – he questioned their every faith, their every way of life – so they called it atheism.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “When we feel safe, when we feel we are with someone who basically agrees with us about the symbolic universe, we let down our defenses, confident that our companion understands the symbols that are usually wall up, and will act appropriately.”

21. “When we feel safe, when we feel we are with someone who basically agrees with us about the symbolic universe, we let down our defenses, confident that our companion understands the symbols that are usually wall up, and will act appropriately.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “It must be recognized that staying alive though suicidal is an act of radiant generosity, a way in which we can save each other.”

22. “It must be recognized that staying alive though suicidal is an act of radiant generosity, a way in which we can save each other.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “The mistake of Marc Antony’s death haunts all suicides, with its reminder that we do not always know where we really are in our story.”

23. “The mistake of Marc Antony’s death haunts all suicides, with its reminder that we do not always know where we really are in our story.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “Aurelius says that one reason it doesn’t matter how long you live is that this is not theatre, that the whole is not the thing. Each moment is the thing. “The soul obtains its own end, wherever the limit of life may be fixed. Not as... in a play... where the whole action is incomplete if anything cuts it short; but in every part and wherever it be stopped, it makes what has been set before it full and complete, so that it can say, ‘I have what is my own.”

24. “Aurelius says that one reason it doesn’t matter how long you live is that this is not theatre, that the whole is not the thing. Each moment is the thing. “The soul obtains its own end, wherever the limit of life may be fixed. Not as... in a play... where the whole action is incomplete if anything cuts it short; but in every part and wherever it be stopped, it makes what has been set before it full and complete, so that it can say, ‘I have what is my own.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “Here one does not use logic to conquer chaos. Rather, one uses logic because the logic itself is beauty, is truth. Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.”

25. “Here one does not use logic to conquer chaos. Rather, one uses logic because the logic itself is beauty, is truth. Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.”

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Jennifer Michael Hecht Quote: “Socrates counts among those great minds who actually cultivated doubt in the name of truth.”

26. “Socrates counts among those great minds who actually cultivated doubt in the name of truth.”

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