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“I saw the Emperor – this world-soul – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.”
― Georg Hegel

“To grow in love-ability is to accept the boundaries of oneself and others, while remaining vulnerable, woundable, around the bounds. Acknowledgement of conditionality is the only unconditionality of human love.”
― Gillian Rose, Love's Work: A Reckoning with Life

“Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics