"Als vorübergehender Zustand ist der Skeptizismus logische Insurrektion; als System ist er Anarchie. Skeptische Methode wäre also ungefähr wie insurgente Regierung."
— Friedrich Schlegel

January 1, 1970

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As a transitional condition, skepticism is logical insurrection; as a system, it is anarchy. Skeptical method would therefore be much the same as rule by insurgents. — #97, as translated in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings (1996), vol. 1, p. 136