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The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? – Hugo Ball

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Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms. – Hugo Ball

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Ethics
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We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. – Hugo Ball

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Libraries
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. – Denis Diderot

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The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane. – Ludwig Feuerbach

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Symbols

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people. – John Jay Chapman

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Symbols

Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The domain of ideology coincides with the domain of signs. They equate with one another. Wherever a sign is present, ideology is present, too. Everything ideological possesses semiotic value. – V. N. Volosinov

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Symbols

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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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