I grant (as a likely supposition) that from now on history is concluded (except for the epilogue).
—Georges Bataille
Conversation
Cartesius certe non vidit simios.
[Surely Descartes never saw an ape.]
—Carolus Linnaeus
Replying to
'Linnaeus’s genius consists not so much in the resoluteness with which he places man among the primates [Anthropomorpha] as in the irony with which he does not record [...] any specific identifying characteristic next to the generic name Homo [for humans]'
—Giorgio Agamben
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