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Wenn man erkennt, dass die tiefste, wenn auch nicht die nützlichste Bildung*, nicht äußerlich, sondern innerlich ist

*Bild – German for “image”. 

Assumptions of nonexistent ultimacies.

Many blame on politic(ian)s what actually is due to economy.

Certainly a deep fear is to recognize, to feel, that there is no Meaning. A rare sensation– for most happily – in its full (in)significance.

Americans can hardly describe themselves as Americans without evoking, rarely consciously, Thomas Jefferson’s “created equal” (1776) and James Truslow Adams “American Dream” (1931).

In that we live in the time during which we know we will die, it is perhaps unsurprising that it seems the prime time of the world.

One author on the Medieval world memorably described how ‘the angels hung low’ then.

By the 19th century in Europe, the sky seems to have been cleared.

So Hitler’s title as Führer was formally approved in Weimar. (Cf. The Dictators, Richard Overy, p. 32)

While I suppose most read for distraction or escape from daily life, its chores and routines, their selves, and any undesirable lurking ennui – and then there is the character and content of the read – every sentence can be read with a different significance, use, depending on the reasons, the purposes, of reading.