Quote #61

'Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.'

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  1. 'Mind arose out of existence, as an organ for keeping alive. In reflecting existence, however, it becomes at the same time something else. …
  2. 'No emancipation without that of society.'
  3. 'Metaphysical categories are not merely an ideology concealing the social system; at the same time they express its nature, the truth about…
  4. 'No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.'
  5. 'Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.'
  6. 'None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.'
  7. 'Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.'
  8. 'Normality is death.'

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