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(About Attention, Belief & Faith, Reasoning, Sign & Symbol, Wisdom & Knowledge, Worship)

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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What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
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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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Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
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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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The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
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