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Helmuth Plessner

“The picture of a being is always a schema, a simplified and crude depiction of what is never entirely representable and exhaustible; such a being seeks to be understood in its potentiality and respected as something infinite, even if boundaries (common forms of existence) have been drawn like fate around it, borders beyond which it can not escape and which its physiognomy constantly remembers. If the person strives for visibility and communicability, then these are often denied to him; if the person flees from visibility and communicability, then these are constantly there.”

Helmuth Plessner, Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
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Grenzen der Gemeinschaft Grenzen der Gemeinschaft by Helmuth Plessner
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