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Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.
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"Hamlet Borgianized", p. 156

 

Hugh Kingsmill

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In the new pattern of thought we do not assume any longer the detached observer, occurring in the idealizations of this classical type of theory, but an observer who by his indeterminable effects creates a new situation, theoretically described as a new state of the observed system. In this way every observation is a singling out of a particular factual result, here and now, from the theoretical possibilities, therefore making obvious the discontinuous aspect of physical phenomena.
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What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!

 

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