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There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is a difficult process.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.