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"Soteriology is seen as a task of recovery or retrieval, a clearing process that brings to light what is already present though temporarily and adventitiously obscured. It emphasizes, in the words of Paul Ricoeur, "mind's attempt to recover its power of thinking, acting and feeling-a power that has, so to speak, been buried or lost-in the knowledge, practices, and feelings that exteriorize it in relation to itself."" — 1 hour, 9 min ago
"Soteriology is seen as a task of recovery or retrieval, a clearing process that brings to light what is already present though temporarily and adventitiously obscured. It emphasizes, in the words of Paul Ricoeur, "mind's attempt to recover its power of thinking, acting and feeling-a power that has, so to speak, been buried or lost-in the knowledge, practices, and feelings that exteriorize it in relation to itself."" — 1 hour, 9 min ago
“Die Lösung des Problems des Lebens merkt man am Verschwinden dieses Problems.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“Schrift ohne den zu ihr gehörigen Schlüssel eben nicht Schrift ist sondern Leben.”
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“Ich schreibe Gedichte, um mich in der Wirklichkeit zu orientieren.... Erst durch das Schreiben erlangen für mich die Dinge Wirklichkeit. Sie ist nicht meine Voraussetzung, sondern mein Ziel.”
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“Man mag sich stellen, wie man will, und man denkt sich immer sehend. Ich glaube, der Mensch träumt nur, damit er nicht aufhöre zu sehen. Es könnte wohl sein, daß das innere Licht einmal aus uns herausträte, so daß wir keines andern mehr bedürften.”
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“But he who, having no touch of the Muses' madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks that he will get into the temple by the help of art—he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man disappears and is nowhere when he enters into rivalry with the madman.”
― Phaedrus
― Phaedrus
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