It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice,"… — Václav Havel
It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather, through the fact of your existence in the world, you create the idea or manifest it — create it, as it were, from the "material of the world," articulate it in the "language of the world."
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