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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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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Born: July 15, 1892
Died: September 26, 1940 (aged 48)
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