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"When Hegel was lying on his deathbed," teased Heinrich Heine, "he said: 'Only one man has understood me,' but shortly afterwards he added fretfully: 'And even he did not understand me.' " Heinrich Heine (Religion and Philosophy in Germany) “...the ideas are stars, in contrast to the sun of revelation. They do not appear in the daylight of history; they are at work in history only invisibly. They shine only into the night of nature. Works of art, then, may be defined as the models of a nature that awaits no day, and thus no Judgment Day; they are the models of a nature that is neither the theater of history nor the dwelling place of mankind. The redeemed night.” Walter Benjamin … [Read more...]