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„If the human eye can betray man to the extent that (…) generations of men were deceived into believing that the sun turns around the earth, then the metaphor of the eyes of the mind cannot (…) hold any longer; it was based (…) on an ultimate trust in bodily vision. If Being and Appearance part company forever (…) , then there is nothing left to be taken upon faith; everything must be doubted.“

„In other words, against the subjectivity of men stands the objectivity of the man-made world rather than the sublime indifference of an untouched nature, whose overwhelming elementary force, on the contrary, will compel them to swing relentlessly in the circle of their own biological movement, which fits so closely into the over-all cyclical movement of nature's household“

„In other words, against the subjectivity of men stands the objectivity of the man-made world rather than the sublime indifference of an untouched nature, whose overwhelming elementary force, on the contrary, will compel them to swing relentlessly in the circle of their own biological movement, which fits so closely into the over-all cyclical movement of nature's household“ p. 137