“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

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German philosopher 1830–1881

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