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"I have to say I think it's a very serious omission that this book doesn't include a glossary." — Mar 04, 2026 10:36AM
"I have to say I think it's a very serious omission that this book doesn't include a glossary." — Mar 04, 2026 10:36AM
“Does Britannia, when she sleeps, dream? Is America her dream?-- in which all that cannot pass in the metropolitan Wakefulness is allow'd Expression away in the restless Slumber of these Provinces, and on West-ward, wherever 'tis not yet mapp'd, nor written down, nor ever, by the majority of Mankind, seen,-- serving as a very Rubbish-Tip for subjunctive Hopes, for all that may yet be true,-- Earthly Paradise, Fountain of Youth, Realms of Prester John, Christ's Kingdom, ever behind the sunset, safe til the next Territory to the West be seen and recorded, measur'd and tied in, back into the Net-Work of Points already known, that slowly triangulates its Way into the Continent, changing all from subjunctive to declarative, reducing Possibilities to Simplicities that serve the ends of Governments,-- winning away from the realm of the Sacred, its Borderlands one by one, and assuming them unto the bare mortal World that is our home, and our Despair.”
― Mason & Dixon
― Mason & Dixon
“The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.”
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“Alles Junge wird einmal alt, alle Schönheit vewelkt, alle Wärme erkaltet, jeder Glanz erlischt, und jeder Wahrheit wird schal und flach. Denn alle diese Dinge haben einmal Gestalt gewonnen, und alle Gestalten unterliegen der Einwirkung der Zeit; sie altern, kranken, zerfallen - wenn sie sich nicht wandeln. Sie können sich wandeln, denn der unsichtbare Funke, der sie einstmals zeugte, ist aus ewiger Kraft unendlicher Zeugung fähig. Niemand soll die Gefahr des Abstieges leugnen, aber er kann gewagt werden. Man soll ihn nicht wagen, aber es ist sicher, daß jemand ihn wagen wird. Wer hinuntersteigen muß, der tue es mit offenen Augen. Dann ist es ein Opfer, welches selbst den Sinn der Götter beugt.”
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“Eine jede Wissenschaft ist für sich ein System; und es ist nicht genug, in ihr nach Principien zu bauen und also technisch zu verfahren, sondern muß man mit ihr, als einem für sich bestehenden Gebäude, auch architektonisch zu Werke gehen und sie nicht wie einen Anbau und als einen Theil eines andern Gebäudes, sondern als in Ganzes für sich behandeln, ob man gleich nachher einen Übergang aus diesem in jenes oder wechselseitig errichten kann.”
― Kritik der Urteilskraft: Die dritte Kritik: Bereicherte Ausgabe. Nachfolger von Der Kritik der reinen Vernunft und Kritik der praktischen Vernunft
― Kritik der Urteilskraft: Die dritte Kritik: Bereicherte Ausgabe. Nachfolger von Der Kritik der reinen Vernunft und Kritik der praktischen Vernunft
“The idea that thought is essentially finite, and for this reason unable to capture the Infinite, is based on a mistaken notion of the movement of thought in knowledge. It is the inadequacy of the logical understanding which finds a multiplicity of mutually repellent individualities with no prospect of their ultimate reduction to a unity that makes us sceptical about the conclusiveness of thought. In fact, the logical understanding is incapable of seeing this multiplicity as a coherent universe. Its only method is generalization based on resemblances, but its generalizations are only fictitious unities which do not affect the reality of concrete things. In its deeper movement, however, thought is capable of reaching an immanent Infinite in whose self-unfolding movement the various finite concepts are merely moments. In its essential nature, then, thought is not static; it is dynamic and unfolds its internal infinitude in time like the seed which, from the very beginning, carries within itself the organic unity of the tree as a present fact.”
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