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For the Romantics and for speculative philosophy, ... to be critical meant to elevate thinking so far beyond all restrictive conditions that the knowledge of truth sprang forth magically, as it were, from insight into the falsehood of these restrictions.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Where the presence of truth should be possible, it can be possible solely under the condition of the recognition of myth—that is, the recognition of its crushing indifference to truth.
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Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Walter Benjamin
Born:
July 15, 1892
Died:
September 26, 1940
(aged 48)
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