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"Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature."
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"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
"A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword."
"It's ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!"
"Every experience in the past, prepares us for today. And the present experience equip us for the future."
"The Holy Bible is the greatest book."
"I never seemed to learn from joy, I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness."
"When you live by understanding, you will escape destructions."
"It doesn't work, she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. "What you're feeling right now doesn't work. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don't want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it's none of my business. But still."
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"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death."
"Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death."
"So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm."
"Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other."
"The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character."
"There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation."
"It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach."
"On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise."
"Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence."
"For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding."
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