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Come hither, and I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.
Even if it is given that someone understands the name 'God' to signify what is said, namely, 'that than which a greater cannot be ...
Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds fro ...
No one makes mistakes. No one runs away
Any more. I bite my lip and
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is in ...
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recog ...
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
The core problem of human language ... I take to be this: having mastered a language, one is able to understand an indefinite numb ...
The English public are not yet ripe to comprehend the essential difference between the reason and the understanding,--between a pr ...
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