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"Spürbare Tiefe - die auch deutlich macht, wen dieses Haften am Wort, am Vorgang des selbstbewusst wahrgenommenen Denkens alles begeistert haben mag." — Mar 24, 2025 10:08AM
"Spürbare Tiefe - die auch deutlich macht, wen dieses Haften am Wort, am Vorgang des selbstbewusst wahrgenommenen Denkens alles begeistert haben mag." — Mar 24, 2025 10:08AM
“Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“Vielmehr ist die intellektuelle Skepsis und mit ihr die Bereitschaft zu platten Moralisierungen gewachsen oder auch, wenn man auf Frankreich sieht, die Flucht in eine literarische Arcanistik.”
― Protest. Systemtheorie und soziale Bewegungen.
― Protest. Systemtheorie und soziale Bewegungen.
“In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
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