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"Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves."
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"If you say a word against a 'sensitive' person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a 'record' playing."
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"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
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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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"Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it."
"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."
"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."
"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."
"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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