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25.10.2006 11:40

citation of the day

Maybe I should start a ranking of the best sentences I come across. There is the one of today, taken from the introduction in P. Ginspargs lecture notes on conformal field theory.
"Omitted references to relevant works are meant to indicate my prejudices rather than my ignorance of the subject."
There you go.

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One of my favorite sentences was written by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno in their book "Dialektik der Aufklärung” (Fischer Verlag 1988). I already bought this book in 1991, on recommendation of Roland Heer, who gave this voluntary course in philosophy in Urdorf. Urs van Binsbergen also knows, because he visited this course as well. The sentence is: «Wir hegen keinen Zweifel [...], daß die Freiheit in der Gesellschaft vom aufklärenden Denken unabtrennbar ist. Jedoch glauben wir, genauso deutlich erkannt zu haben, daß der Begriff eben dieses Denkens, nicht weniger als die konkreten historischen Formen, die Institutionen der Gesellschaft, in die es verflochten ist, schon den Keim zu jedem Rückschritt enthalten, der heute überall sich ereignet. Nimmt Aufklärung die Reflexion auf dieses rückläufige Moment nicht in sich auf, so besiegelt sie ihr eigenes Schicksal.» Of course, I also know more than one book and more than one sentence, but I think, this one is enough for the moment.

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My name is Magdalena Luz. I grew up in Switzerland. I studied physics at Humboldt University Berlin, where I used to live in "Nordkapstrasse" (North Cape street). That's how this blog got its name. After a short intermezzo in Copenhagen, DK, I live now in the amazing city of Wuppertal. This is a place the wild, wild West of Germany, built on 7 hills, (which is really the only thing it has in common with Rome) It is populated by the strange species of homo germanicus occidens communis, also known as 'gemeiner Wessi'. And even with her it is light years away from ever being like Berlin.

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