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1914: “Reality does not aspire to be logical”

All thought they were being attacked, kings, diplomats and nations. Logically this was not correct; if all are attacked nobody attacks and nobody is attacked. Reality, however, does not aspire to be logical. (Golo Mann)

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Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.

Pater Edmund Waldstein OCist is a monk of Stift Heiligenkreuz.

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    Frank Morris

    reality is the truth. logic is only part of reality.

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    […] of the rest of his history of modern Germany. Mann has a wonderful sense of the ironies and inconsistencies of human history. Although he himself has somewhat liberal tendencies he has great ability […]

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