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• The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
• The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning…
• A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success,…
• One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.
• For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.
• But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
• God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
• God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of…
• If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
• All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse;…
• If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
• No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will…

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