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“An historical truth is only true once”
― Carl Schmitt

“The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he sees his own human reality in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself”
― Alexandre Kojeve

“It is up to philosophy to think that things which differ from the thought and yet make it a thought, exclusively, while their demon seeks to persuade the thought that it ought not to be”
― Adorno Theodor W.

“The Americans have never known what war,politics and state mean the boys do not die as soldiers, but are killed as police agents, and, naturally, nobody sees anything good about that.”
― Alexandre Kojève

“In 1968, Kojève held a meeting with the leaders of the West German Student Movement. His advice: the most important thing for them as student leaders to do would be to learn Ancient Greek. The young radicals were “quite perplexed.”
Afterwards Kojève went to visit Carl Schmitt, arguing that he's "the only person in Germany worth talking to."
“Carl Schmitt: Apocalyptic Prophet of the Counterrevolution”
― Jacob Taubes, To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections