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«Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow»
«One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it»
«Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
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animal, Animal World, arriving, belongs, contradiction, essentially, faculty, former, grasping, instrument, latter, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating, successfully, The Animal, the help
«If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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capable, grasping, objectively, precisely
«The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It doe»
«Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Anger
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anger, angered, angers, burned, burned at, burning in, burn in, burn out, burn up, coal, else, gets, get hold, get hold of, grasping, grasps, holding, hold over, hold still for, hot, hotter, intent, intents, like, someone, Someone else, The One, throwing, throw in, throw out, throw up, with
«Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Government
| Keywords:
actually, arbitrary, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, cruel, grasping, tolerable, unintelligent, worst
«Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
and others, complain, defect, grasping, Order of, perspicuity, regularities, regularity, retain, very much
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