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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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19 Feb '16 07:42:40 AM

Littera gesta docet; quod credas allegoria; quid agas moralia; quo tendas anagogia.

19 Feb '16 02:08:59 AM

… you can see… only if…

19 Feb '16 01:42:10 AM

'… to lead speakers and listeners unaware of each other's existence to talk to one another…'

19 Feb '16 12:58:59 AM

The 'visual room'?

17 Feb '16 08:18:15 PM

'… später liest er Bücher, die Zeitung, Briefe, etc.'

17 Feb '16 07:59:27 PM

'… multiplication of grief and toil…'

17 Feb '16 03:20:26 PM

The little kids on the playground asked, 'You down with O.P.P.?'

16 Feb '16 05:34:31 PM

Teachings about teachings; non-teachings about teaching.

16 Feb '16 02:23:23 AM

'Nothing will come of it': an attitude which can attach to teaching (to a teaching), too.