Julius Bahnsen Quotes

1830–1881 Germany

Julius Friedrich August Bahnsen (30 March 1830 – 7 December 1881) was a German philosopher. Bahnsen is usually considered the originator of characterology and a real-dialectical method of philosophical reflection which he laid down in his two-volume Contributions to Characterology (1867) and developed forth with his following works, amongst others his magnum opus The Contradiction in the Knowledge and Being of the World (1880/82).

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The longer I live, the more I feel that the simplest formula for the constancy of my fate is: on a lost watch.

What in all the world has courage to do with hope?

Man is a self-conscious Nothing.

[The self is divided within itself], willing what it does not will and not willing what it wills.

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.

[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!"

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.

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