“Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.”

— Hannah Arendt, book The Life of the Mind

Source: The Life of the Mind (1971/1978), p. 56.

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