Sunday, October 12, 2014
Inside the Heads of Half-Wits
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, "From a Private Letter (1800)," tr. Daniel Breazeale in J.G. Fichte, Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings, 1797-1800 (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994), p. 158:
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Alas, my friend, I am entirely lacking in the talent required for sniffing out the inconsistencies and contradictions that ceaselessly rattle around and patiently tolerate one another's presence within the heads of our half-wits...Related post: Cognitive Dissonance.
O, mein Freund, es fehlt mir ganz am Geschick, die Inconsequenzen und Widersprüche, die sich in den Köpfen unserer Halbdenker unaufhörlich herumtummeln und unter einander geduldig vertragen, zu wittern...
