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Quote by Rudolf Bultmann
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, i

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting. – Rudolf Bultmann

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