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«To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
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apparently, dependent, depth, detail, informed, multiplicity, on the other hand, outward, perceive, trivial, wisest
«Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.»
«We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.»
«The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
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Behavior,
Mankind
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hinge, hinge on, outward, swinging, swinging door
«The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.»
«Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.»
«The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.»
«We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise.»
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