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Ordinary language is all right.

One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.

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12 Apr '19 03:08:47 PM

'They have this fear that everything is being taken away.'

12 Apr '19 02:39:00 PM

'To begin one of his books can feel like entering a lecture that has already started.'

12 Apr '19 02:32:09 PM

Habermas as a historian of concepts

5 Apr '19 09:39:12 PM

‘"You give with one hand and take with the other!" Certainly, for I do not want to give anything to you, but only demonstrate giving and taking.’

3 Apr '19 03:26:11 AM

'… and he was told but these few words / which opened up his heart…'

31 Mar '19 10:26:52 PM

Just a trace of snow.

26 Mar '19 01:28:41 PM

'I wouldn't change anything about it, it was perfect, it was the way how a day would go.'

25 Mar '19 05:07:49 PM

'… for discourse of illustration is cut off; recitals of examples are cut off; discourse of connection and order is cut off; descriptions of practice are cut off.'

25 Mar '19 04:42:51 PM

'Once I saw electricity, I completely lost interest in nature. An unimproved thing.'