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“In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don’t see what use he is.”

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Book:Bouvard and Pécuchet
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“The thought is not the thing that it represents. Try to get that right down to your core, right down to the marrow in your bones and into the blood that flows through your veins: the thought is not the thing. Then embrace that intermediary step of unknowing things, and as you enter the unknown, you'll see it is not a place; it is the living reality of things underneath the idea of the unknown. The point is not to spend the rest of your life saying, "I do not know" to everything; it is to step out of the known and directly perceive. You do this by entering the lived reality of not knowing, which takes you out of the known, out of the idea and into the reality of you, of anything, and of anyone. It's a place where words are useful tools, but you are no longer trapped by them.”

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Book:The Most Important Thing: Discovering Truth at the Heart of Life
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“... το να αποδίδεις ισχύ σε αφαιρέσεις μέσα στην πραγματικότητα σημαίνει να καταστρέφεις την πραγματικότητα.”

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Book:Lectures on the philosophy of history, by G. W. F. Hegel. Tr. from the 3d German ed. by J. Sibree. 1884 [Leather Bound]
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