German

vernünftig- fair nuns tig   =reasonable (rea’s son); rational

Hegel famously wrote in the Preface to his Philosophy of Right, “Was vernünftig ist, das ist wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig”: “What is rational, that is real; and what is real, that is rational.” This has caused much metaphoric shredding of clothing and gnashing of teeth on the part of later scholars and ideologists. As Löwith puts it:

die Geduld = Patience

Obama verliert die Geduld mit Energiekonzernen

unterscheiden (sich)

für Männer unterscheiden sich nicht in der Pflege von anderen Duschgels.

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