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Ordinary language is all right.
One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.
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'To begin one of his books can feel like entering a lecture that has already started.'
‘"You give with one hand and take with the other!" Certainly, for I do not want to give anything to you, but only demonstrate giving and taking.’
'I wouldn't change anything about it, it was perfect, it was the way how a day would go.'
'… for discourse of illustration is cut off; recitals of examples are cut off; discourse of connection and order is cut off; descriptions of practice are cut off.'
'Once I saw electricity, I completely lost interest in nature. An unimproved thing.'