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- At the same time as I am a victim, I am stupid, too. But my stupidity is due to my isolation ...
- —Anselme Bellegarrigue, Au fait, au fait !! Intérpretation de l'idée démocratique, p. 9
- The collective reason . . . produces synthetic ideas that are very different from, and often completely contrary to, those produced by the individual ego . . . When two or several men [and/or women] are persuaded to come to a conclusion about a question . . . through a process of contradiction, what results from the reciprocal and respective elimination of their subjectivity to which they are led, i.e. of the absolute that the ego affirms and represents, is a common manner of seeing, which no longer resembles, either in content or in form, what it would have been without this debate, their individual way of thinking.
- This manner of seeing, into which only pure relations enter, without admixture of metaphysical and absolutist elements, constitutes the collective reason . . .
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