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La sottise, l’erreur, le péché, la lésine, Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps, Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords, Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine. Was wettet ihr? den sollt ihr noch verlieren! Wenn ihr mir die Erlaubniß gebt Ihn meine Straße sacht zu führen. Hope is reactionary: it cocoons actuality in the gossamer of the tolerable, dulling the thirst for change. Despair is revolutionary: it grinds the knife-edge of the intolerable against the whetstone of actuality, sparking the will to change. The only appropriate mode of thinking for a culture on the edge of extinction is the thinking that stimulates pain. Listen to the mind of G—d which doesnt need to be. I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late, and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive, therefore, as to the business of being profound, that it is with writers as with wells. A person with good eyes can see to the bottom of the deepest, provided any water be there; and that often when there is nothing in the world at the bottom besides dryness and dirt, though it be but a yard and half under ground, it shall pass, however, for wondrous deep, upon no wiser a reason than because it is wondrous dark. Consciousness is the Feeling of Negation, Novelty. Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.