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January 5, 2010
experience and intuition
I see two roads leading to the knowledge of human history. The one, wearisome and without visible goal, with countless twists and turns - the way of experience; the other, hardly more than a single leap - the way of intuition. He who takes the first road has to figure out one thing from another by laborious calculation, while he who takes the second immediately penetrates to the essence of every event and object and is able to contemplate these essences in their vital complex interrelationship and easily compare them with everything else like numbers on a slate.
Novalis - Henry Von Ofterdingen
Posted by amin at January 5, 2010 10:29 PM