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The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening our eyes t...more

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This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man's power. With it he has transforme...more

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What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinking must start; and thinking, w...more

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The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

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The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?