"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."

Ability, Language, Reason

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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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"The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated."

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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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"The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself."

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"Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it."

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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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"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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"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."

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"Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves."

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