Murray Porter

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“The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right

tags: endings, understanding, wisdom

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“You can only cruise the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

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“Judgement does not come suddenly; the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

tags: judgement

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“Next time I come here," he said to himself, "I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or a stick to hit them with.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“But even regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimised — the question involuntarily arises — to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of History

tags: slaughter-bench

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