“Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
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“Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognized by the person ready to discover it.”
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
On the Decay of the Art of Lying http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2572/pg2572.html
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation (1943), Statement Of Obligations
Context: Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just. This reintegration with the good is what punishment is. Every man who is innocent, or who has finally expiated guilt, needs to be recognized as honourable to the same extent as anyone else.
“The truth is the United States has to this point never recognized that Taiwan is part of China.”
Mark Chen (2016) cited in " US ‘one China’ policy debated at forum http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2016/12/15/2003661235" on Taipei Times, 15 December 2016
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)
Context: And so Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness. If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness. And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, (Everybody) because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.
