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Mirabeau had already noted that our poetry arose at a time when scholarly reflection was highly developed and , so he says, German poetry bears the character of a period in which reason was victorious over imagination: this is why it had to produce fruit rather than flowers. So our poets do not only combine scholarship with their poetic activity; their poetic development is directly conditioned by the progress of their research.

The Schleiermacher Biography - Wilhelm Dilthey

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Someone once said that he had very great difficulty in writing poetry; he had plenty of ideas but could not get the language he needed. He was rightly told that poetry was written in words, not in ideas.

On Social Psychology - George Herbert Mead

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The persecuted one is expelled from its place and has nothing left but itself, has nothing in the world upon which to rest its head. Accused beyond any fault, persecuted, one is unable to offer a self-defense in language, because the disqualification of the apology is the very characteristic of persecution, so that persecution is the precise moment where the subject is reached or touched without the mediation of the logos.

Emmanuel Levinas - Substitution

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Hieronymus Bosch

The Ship of Fools (Religious)

1490

Oil, 32 x 58 cm

All that is to live in endless song Must in life-time first be drown'd

The Gods of Greece - Schiller

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That mechanical conception which science presents has no future - or a very dark one, at best. Not dark in the sense of catastrophes, for those are always exciting; but dark in the very monotony of the picture. The conception of entropy is anything but exciting. Such a universe would answer only to an infinite sense of ennui.

Evolution Becomes a General Idea - George Herbert Mead

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"Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it."

-Simone Weil (via totanava)