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“There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at.”
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“When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its revolutions.”
― On the Aesthetic Education of Man
― On the Aesthetic Education of Man
“The late Franz Borkenau once said, after he had broken with the Communist Party, that he could no longer put up with the practice of discussing municipal regulations in the categories of Hegelian logic, and Hegelian logic in the spirit of meetings of the town council.”
― Aesthetics and Politics
― Aesthetics and Politics
“The only true thoughts are those which do not grasp their own meaning”
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“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
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