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Julius Friedrich August Bahnsen was a German philosopher. Bahnsen is usually considered the originator of characterology and a real-dialectical method of philosophical reflection which he laid down in his two-volume Contributions to Characterology and developed forth with his following works, amongst others his magnum opus The Contradiction in the Knowledge and Being of the World . Wikipedia  

✵ 30. March 1830 – 7. December 1881
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Famous Julius Bahnsen Quotes

“And if my friends refused to listen to me, then the walls had to hear me or the stones in the fields and the trees of the forests.”

Julius Bahnsen

Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 371

“What in all the world has courage to do with hope?”

Julius Bahnsen

Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 381

“The longer I live, the more I feel that the simplest formula for the constancy of my fate is: on a lost watch.”

Julius Bahnsen

Quoted by Harry Slochower in "Julius Bahnsen, Philosopher of Heroic Despair, 1830-1881" (1932), The Philosophical Review, 41(4), p. 372

“Man is a self-conscious Nothing.”

Julius Bahnsen

Quoted by Thomas Ligotti in The Conspiracy Against The Human Race, 2011, p. 13.

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