“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

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German philosopher 1830–1881

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