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— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel"Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes."
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Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.
— Marshall McLuhan
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