The midnight wind is blowing Sixth Avenue. These faces.
What is “familiarly known” is not properly known, just for the reason that it is “familiar.” When engaged in the process of knowing, it is the commonest form of self-deception, and a deception of other people as well, to assume something to be familiar, and give assent to it on that very account.
{ Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit, 31, 1807 | Continue reading }
