"I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.
~ Slavoj Žižek ~












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