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Arno Schmidt
“Nur die phantasielosen flüchten sich in die Realität.”
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Anton Zeilinger
“Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.”
― Anton Zeilinger
tags: knowledge, physics, reality, science
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Hans Lebert
“Man möchte sich das Gehirn herausnehmen, um es zu kratzen.”
― Hans Lebert, Die Wolfshaut
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“Es ist mehr Vernunft in deinem Leibe als in deiner besten Weisheit.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
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― Octave Mirbeau
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