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THE PRINCIPLE OF HOPE

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of the real is also always communicated. Corrected and correctly placed, nocturnal day, as the cheerful Greeks themselves called the reddening dawn. The wishful<br />

landscape in art has this colourful foreglow up its sleeve, indeed has it as an Object after it is planted in the world and may grow, but has not yet ripened.<br />

41WISHFUL LANDSCAPE AND WISDOM SUB SPECIE AETERNITATIS AND <strong>OF</strong> PROCESS<br />

What do I have,<br />

If I do not have all, the young boy said,<br />

Is there here a case of less and more?<br />

And is your truth just like the senses' bliss<br />

A simple sum we can possess in greater<br />

Or smaller form and always still possess?<br />

Or is it not alone and undivided?<br />

Schiller, The Veiled Image at Sais<br />

If a single truth prevails like the sun, that is day.<br />

Hamann, Aesthetica in nuce<br />

The concept is the fence, physics the garden, ethics the fruit.<br />

Chrysippos the Stoic<br />

The search for proportion<br />

There is no thinking for its own sake and never has been. Thinking began with wanting to recognize a situation in order to know one's way around in it. Behind this<br />

thinking stood fears and above all wishing needs which are to be satisfied, and moreover by means of a short cut, deliberately. There is no path here which has not been<br />

made into one, so that people may walk on it and arrive where they wish to go in accordance with their interests. For which they have set out with light above their<br />

work in a world half mediated with them. This results in wishful lands even in cognition, above all where life is surveyed as a whole, and hence philosophically, and is to<br />

be brought to what is to be fled, what is to be sought. For the first really free thinking, which was Greek, began

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