“It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.”

— Friedrich Engels

Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1886/ludwig-feuerbach/ch04.htm (1886)

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