“If is the bond binding me to life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all ? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universal of ?””
“The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historical research. We find, then, that there is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes evident that such violations are not accidental events, they are not results of insufficient knowledge or of inattention which might have been avoided. On the contrary, we see that they are necessary for progress. Indeed, one of the most striking features of recent discussions in the history and philosophy of science is the realization that events and developments, such as the invention of atomism in antiquity, the Copernican Revolution, the rise of modern atomism (kinetic theory; dispersion theory; stereochemistry; quantum theory), the gradual emergence of the wave theory of light, occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound be certain 'obvious' methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.””
“The smooth, flat rocks were exactly the same, the sea pounded down on them in the same way, and also the landscape under the water, with its small valleys and bays and steep chasms and slopes, strewn with starfish and sea urchins, crabs and fish, was the same. You could still buy Slazenger tennis rackets, Tretorn balls, and Rossignol skis, Tyrolia bindings and Koflach boots. The houses where we lived were still standing, all of them. The sole difference, which is the difference between a child’s reality and an adult’s, was that they were no longer laden with meaning. A pair of Le Coq soccer boots was just a pair of soccer boots. If I felt anything when I held a pair in my hands now it was only a hangover from my childhood, nothing else, nothing in itself. The same with the sea, the same with the rocks, the same with the taste of salt that could fill your summer days to saturation, now it was just salt, end of story. The world was the same, yet it wasn’t, for its meaning had been displaced, and was still being displaced, approaching closer and closer to meaninglessness.””
Karl BindingKarl Binding was a prominent German jurist whose work significantly impacted legal and ethical discussions surrounding life and death. He is best known for co-authoring the controversial book, 'Die Fr...
“Love is many things, most of its forms are fleeting, linked to everything that happens, everything that comes and goes, everything that fills us at first, then empties us out, but unconditional love is constant, it glows faintly throughout one's whole life, and I want you to know this - that you too were born into that love, and that it will envelop you, no matter what happens, as long as your mother and I are alive. It may happen that you don't want anything to do with it. It may happen that you turn away from it. And one day you will understand that it doesn't matter, that it doesn't change anything, that unconditional love is the only love that doesn't bind you but sets you free.””
“Equal laws are not suitable for unequal positions. Citizens cannot be subject to the obligations of subjects, nor subjects to the duties of citizens. It is therefore necessary to distinguish carefully and always the laws which concern the citizens alone, then the laws which bind only the subjects, then finally the laws which are applicable to both. Inborn rights are equal for all, whereas acquired rights are unequal: these two kinds of rights therefore require specific laws for their maintenance.””
“The dissatisfaction with every particular mode of communication (c) leads to a will to total c, a will which can only be one and which is the authentically driving and binding force in all the modes of c. But this will to communicate, which actualizes itself out of potential Existenz through reason in the three modes of encompassing, itself does not reach fulfillment. For it is continuously bound within the three modes and ,also, aroused and moved, yet it is, so to speak muddied in its mode. And finally, it finds itself limited through its own , as well as others' historicity. This historicity both brings communication in its depths before the multiplicity of truth and also lets it wrecked. [***] It follows thirdly that ,if truth in communication can never be definitively won and established- truth like communication seeing itself, so to speak, disappear before Transcendence, change before Being- nevertheless, its resolute actualization brings forth also the deepest opennes fro Transcendence. Truth as Communicability from Reason and Existenz, Karl Jaspers””