Sublime

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Luhmann, working with pen and paper, would put a note behind an existing one and number it accordingly. If the existing note bore the number 21, he numbered the new note 22. If note number 22 already existed, he would still add it behind 21, but number it 21a. By alternating numbers and letters, he was able to branch out into an infinite number of

Where I also found again my old devil and archenemy, the spirit of gravity, and all that he created: constraint, statute, necessity and consequence and purpose and will and good and evil. For

Je ne crois pas, non. Naissance de la tragédie était, après tout, une sorte de thèse ; et dans les deux cas il y a cette incroyable prodigalité, cette profusion d'idées projetées sans la moindre préparation dans les pages, qui rendent le texte à vrai dire presque illisible – ce qui est étonnant, soit dit en passant, c'est que vous teniez à ce

Nietzsche emphasized this point when he contrasted the originality of his walk-stimulated ideas with those produced by the bookish scholar locked in a library reacting only to other people’s work. “We do not belong,” he wrote, “to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books.”

Write exactly one note for each idea and write as if you were writing for someone else: Use full sentences, disclose your sources, make references and try to be as precise, clear and brief as possible.