Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
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The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
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A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
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Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
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Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.
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Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.
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Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.
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Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.
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Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.
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