Scientia potentia est A Sponti (Außerparlamentarische Opposition) version of the slogan is "Wissen ist Macht, nichts wissen, macht auch nichts", a pun about the previous motto along the line "Knowledge is power, but being ignorant doesn't bother anyway". Joschka Fischer and Daniel Cohn-Bendit belong to those Spontis that nevertheless held powerful positions, in Fischer's case with no more formal education than a taxi driver's licence. The German Bundeswehr Bataillon Elektronische Kampfführung 932, an electronic warfare unit based in Frankenberg (Eder), still uses the Latin version "Scientia potentia est" as its motto. Though its meaning varies from author to author, the phrase often implies
Subsistit in Subsistit in Subsistit in (subsists in) is a Latin phrase, which appears in the eighth paragraph of "Lumen gentium," a landmark document of the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church: This sentence and the correct meaning of "subsists in" affects the "definition of the Church" with important implications for how the Catholic Church views itself, its relations with other Christian communities and other religions. Questions have been raised, if "Lumen gentium" reworded the longstanding phrase, which stated that the Church of Christ is (Latin "est") the Catholic Church. "Lumen gentium" does recognize that other Christian ecclesial communities have elements