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Ιδοὺ Ρόδος, ἰδοὺ ϰαὶ τὸ πήδημα.
Hic Rhodus, hic saltus.
To comprehend what is is the task of philosophy, for what is is reason. As for the individual, everyone is a son of his time anyway; so also philosophy is its time grasped in thoughts. It is just as foolish to imagine that any philosophy goes beyond its present world as that an individual leaps over his time, leaps beyond Rhodes. If his theory indeed goes beyond it, builds itself a world as it ought to be, it indeed exists, but only in his opining—a soft element in which anything whatever can be imagined.
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