"Imagine a sleepwalker who has climbed to the highest point of a tower and is now dreaming, not that he stands on top of the tower and is being sustained by it, but that the tower is suspended from him, and the earth from the tower, and that he holds the whole thing hanging ..."
Friedrich Jacobi (1743-1819).
[His critique of enlightenment rationality (Descartes-Leibnitz) AND romantic idealism (Kant-Fichte).
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