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Julius Bahnsen
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“[The self is divided within itself], willing what it does not will and not willing what it wills.”
Julius Bahnsen (1830–1881) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by in Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 (2016), p. 229.
“Man is a self-conscious Nothing.”
Julius Bahnsen (1830–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Thomas Ligotti in The Conspiracy Against The Human Race, 2011, p. 13.
“And if my friends refused to listen to me, then the walls had to hear me or the stones in the fields and the trees of the forests.”
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Recorded in: Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 371
“[On Schopenhauer:] I went away conscious that I had seen not only a genius-of ideas, but also a character of the most genuine sublimity . . I felt myself . . . transported into a new existence. Francis of Assisi and the other heroes of asceticism had become my ideals.”
Julius Bahnsen (1830–1881) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 372
“The longer I live, the more I feel that the simplest formula for the constancy of my fate is: on a lost watch.”
Julius Bahnsen (1830–1881) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 372
“The conclusion of the Realdialektik is: 'It does not suffice' either for complete annihilation or for full satisfaction. The child of Gaia is born between heaven and hell, now ready to camp with the lightshunning creatures of the Chthonic darkness, now ready to flutter upwards to the heights of splendor.”
Julius Bahnsen (1830–1881) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 377
“[On Hegel's panlogism offers] no asylum for lawless vagabonds (sinners against the logical order), no free playground granted by the master of the world in his good humor to each of these kobolds, where they might have the privilege of moving about and of enjoying themselves in a manner unrelated to the rational worldpurpose-until their day also came and the broomstick of the courtmaster would sweep them out into the sanctum.”
Julius Bahnsen (1830–1881) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 379
“[On Spinoza's necessity of the world's process:] The inability to resign oneself to the necessary order, is also a necessity and the pain is on that account no less!”
Julius Bahnsen (1830–1881) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 380
“What in all the world has courage to do with hope?”
Julius Bahnsen (1830–1881) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 381