“Enlightenment is terror; when you light up the world, you make its filth clearer.”

— Karlheinz Deschner

Aufklärung ist Ärgernis, wer die Welt erhellt, macht ihren Dreck deutlicher.
From "Die Haßberge" in Dornröschenträume und Stallgeruch: Über Franken, die Landschaft meines Lebens, Knesebech und Schuler, 1989.

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Aufklärung ist Ärgernis, wer die Welt erhellt, macht ihren Dreck deutlicher.

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German writer and activist 1924–2014

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