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“Gef’s story, which would have been nonsense even if it had not come from the mouth of a talking mongoose, was that he was born in New Delhi on June 7th, 1852. This meant he was at least eighty when he met the Irvings. On average, mongooses live twenty years, though this is the lifespan of a nonverbal mongoose. No one has yet established the longevity of one given the power of speech, but we may assume it is at least ninety.”

“Gefecht und Schlacht, Tod und Zerstörung, das konnte nicht alles sein. Irgendwo schleiften die zerrissenen Zügel dieses Wagens über die Erde, und so lange mußte man gehen, bis sie über einen hinwegfegten und man versuchen konnte, ein Stück zu ergreifen. Den Sinn mußte man zu finden suchen; nicht das Ganze, die Lösung, das Letzte, aber ein Stückchen Sinn, den Schimmer eines Planes, und dann wollte man in Gottes Namen noch einmal anfangen.”

“Gehinom, or Gehenna, passed into use as a metaphoric designation for the place of punishment in the hereafter. According to a Talmudic view, the doors of Gehenna close behind apostates, informers, promoters of sin, and tyrants for many generations. According to the mystical holy book, the Zohar, sinners are punished for twelve months, half of the time in fire and half in snow. Among those who do not face Gehenna, a Talmudic passage includes the very poor and diseased. Despite the many differences of opinion as to the meaning of Gehenna, it is nowhere considered to be a dogma or a doctrine of faith that Jews are required to profess. Even those rabbinic sages who delighted in describing the torments of Gehenna and other shadowy places were usually aware that they were permitting their imagination to roam freely.”

“Geist is Hegel’s counterpart to what figures in Aristotle as the kind of soul that is characteristic of rational animals. It is human beings whom Aristotle defines as rational animals; that corresponds to Hegel’s implicit identification of the philosophy of Geist with the philosophy of the human. On this account, then, Geist is the formally distinctive way of being a living being that characterizes human beings: in Aristotelian terms, the form of a living human being qua living human being. Kinds of soul in Aristotle’s account are not kinds of substance. Souls are not material substances; the only relevant material substances are living beings. And one would miss the point of Aristotle’s conception of the form of a living being qua living if one conceived souls as immaterial substances. So Geist in particular is not a substance, material or immaterial. The idea of Geist is the idea of a distinctive way of living a life; often it is better to speak of Geistigkeit, as the defining characteristic of that distinctive form of life and thereby of the living beings that live it.”

“GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself. And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour. He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now. He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from.”

“Gel, yanımda otur. Nasıl istiyorsan, öyle olur. İstemiyorsan konuşma, gerek yok. Sen yanımdayken, sessizlik bile huzurdur. Biliyorum, çok acıyor! Biliyorum, bu dünya çok zalim! Söylemeyi çok istiyorum, elimi tut! Ama, yaralarının ilk ilacı sadece sensin. Senin derdin benim derdim, Her dert insana cesaret veriyor. Bulutlar güneş ışığının habercileridir. Bugünün acısı yarın tacı oluyor. Hadi gel, burada otur. Nasıl istiyorsan, öyle olur.”

“Gel, yanımda otur. Nasıl istiyorsan, öyle olur. İstemiyorsan konuşma, gerek yok. Yanımdayken, sessizliğin bile sükundur. Biliyorum, çok acıyor! Biliyorum, bu dünya çok zalim! Istiyorum ama soylemem - elimi tut! Çünkü senin yaranın ilacı sadece sensin. Senin derdin benim derdim. Her dert insana cesaret veriyor. Bulutlar güneş ışığının habercileridir. Bugünün acısı yarın tacı oluyor. Hadi gel, burada otur. Nasıl istiyorsan, öyle olur.”

“Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained the vague beginnings of an idea which could only hint at and which he had never managed to bring out more clearly. I had always thought of mathematics as being much more straightforward: a formula is a formula, and an algebra is an algebra, but Gel'fand found hedgehogs lurking in the rows of his spectral sequences!”

“Geld zu haben ist, wie alles andere auch, ein Werkzeug. Sehen Sie es als solches. Und betrachten Sie dabei nicht nur sich selbst. Überlegen Sie vielmehr, wie Sie zum Teil jener Dynamik werden können, in der Geld in allen Bereichen einer Verbesserung dient. Dann ist es nicht nur ein Segen Geld zu haben, dann bringt es auch eine Verantwortung mit sich.”