“But because I have some obscure notion, which has some connection with what I am looking for, if I only boldly start with it, it molds the mind as the speech progresses, in the need to find an end to the beginning, that confused conception to complete clarity in such a way that, to my astonishment, the knowledge is finished with the period.” Heinrich von Kleist (1805) On the gradual development of thoughts while speaking
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“But because I have some obscure notion, which has some connection with what I am looking for, if I only boldly start with it, it molds the mind as the speech progresses, in the need to find an end to the beginning, that confused conception to complete clarity in such a way that, to my astonishment, the knowledge is finished with the period.” Heinrich von Kleist (1805) On the gradual development of thoughts while speaking