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| �But in the way of what one might call instinctive practical wisdom, the woman's superiority is such that in comparison the man is a great clod.� ("Woman", 1854)
�But isn't history actual? Certainly. But what history? No doubt the six thousand years of the world's history are actuality, but one that is put behind us; it is and can exist for me only as thought actuality, i.e. as possibility.� ("'Science'--the Existential", 1850) �But it is a paralogism that one thousand human beings are worth more than one; that would be to turn men into animals. The point about being human is that the unit is the highest; a thousand of them count for less.� (1848) �But it is an exhausting existence. I am convinced that not a single person understands me.� ("Report", March 1846) �But just as it is a great mistake to think that what the individual figure in a poem says or does represents the poet's personal opinion, so it is a mistake to assume that all that happens, the fact of its happening, has God's consent. Oh, no! He has his own view.� ("A Point of View For the History of the Human Race", 1854) �But last Sunday, that is to say yesterday, the clergyman said that a human being can do absolutely nothing of himself, and we all understood it. When the clergyman says it in church we all understand it, and if a man tries to express it existentially during the six days of the week so that people notice it, it is not long before we all understand--that he is crazy.� (Concluding Unscientific Postscript) �But love He is, and it is out of love He wills that thou shouldst will as He wills; and in love He suffers as only infinite and almighty love can, as no man is capable of comprehending, so it is He suffers when thou dost not will as He wills. �God is love. Never was there born a man whom this thought does not overwhelm with indescribable bliss, especially when it comes close to him in the sense that �God is love� signifies �Thou art loved.� " (Attack Upon "Christendom") �But one who gives the learner not only the Truth, but also the condition for understanding it, is more than teacher. All instruction depends upon the presence, in the last analysis, of the requisite condition; if this is lacking, no teacher can do anything. For otherwise he would find it necessary not only to transform the learner, but to re-create him before beginning to teach him. But this is something that no human being can do; if it is to be done, it must be done by God himself.� (Philosophical Fragments) |
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