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“If I had the talent, say, to draw the visual field that is right infront of me, I would be able to see a picture of my visual field. But obviously this picture would not be my visual field but only another thing in my visual field. The same applies to the world: whenever we consider ourselves to have understood the world, we have only a copy or a picture of the world before us. We cannot grasp the world conceptually because there is no field of sense to which it belongs. The world does not appear on the stage of the world; it does not step up and introduce itself to us.”
― Why the World Does Not Exist
― Why the World Does Not Exist
“All creative work strives for simplicity, for perfectly simple expression; and this means reaching down into the furthest depths of the recreation of life. But that is the most painful part of creative work: finding the shortest path between what you want to say or express and its ultimate reproduction in the finished image. The struggle for simplicity is the painful search for a form adequate to the truth you have grasped.”
― Sculpting in Time
― Sculpting in Time
“Man bemächtigt sich des Todes, indem man tötet.”
― Kapitalismus und Todestrieb. Essays und Gespräche
― Kapitalismus und Todestrieb. Essays und Gespräche
“We are projects of collective self-creation. What if we approached human history that way? What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?”
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
“In other words, Kant’s defence of revisionary ontological monism entails at the very least the possibility of revisionary ontological pluralism. I take him to be committed to revisionary ontological monism because he thinks that the domain of appearances contains within it everything that exists, and anything that is outside the domain cannot exist, but might perhaps schmexist. However, Kant’s monism cannot make sense of this option, in particular, because it limits the concept of real possibility to the domain of existence. Thus, the other domains – schmexistence, krexistence, X-istence, and so on – are not really possible, but are maybe schmpossible, krpossible, or X-possible.”
― Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology
― Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology
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