tiny.ag/hrhuscvd · ★★☆☆ Fair (7 ratings) · submitted 2003
Reflex knowledge. Just like the mirror reflects itself through the reflected object, so Man knows himself through the object known.
Heroic furore. The six senses without reason are “non-sense”, reason without them a castle in the air.
Beyond. Often we attribute to the words of a speaker meanings that go ‘beyond’ the significance given them by the speaker himself.
Involution. On the circumference of a circle: he who believes he is going forward is going backward instead.
Decadence. Whatever survives its death becomes a rotting receptacle of flies and disease.
Sentimental interpretations. Quite often we consider “altruism” what could very well be the effect of perfect egotism.
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