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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
«The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.»
Author: Jane Jacobs
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multiplicity
«I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.»
«A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.»
«By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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abroad, collected, faithfulness, multiplicity, scattered, unity, wound, wound up
«To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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civil law, embarrass, legislative, multiplicity, wrecked
«Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.»
«The cementing factor of this unity in multiplicity is Love.»
«O Marvelous! what new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.»
Author: William Carlos Williams
(Poet)
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configuration, configurations, marvelous, multiplicity
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