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“Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty (or mean) interests and the search of perishable things, and with that ("et avec cela", Fr.) they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self ("moi", Fr.) so hardly worthy ("digne", Fr.) of it.”

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African Spir, born on November 15, 1837 and died on March 26, 1890, was a German philosopher whose philosophical thoughts had a profound impact on later existentialism and phenomenology. more

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