As we explore the world of thoughts our changing understandings change its shape. Things we thought we knew disappear as unexpected beings take their place, and we move among different and higher platforms of understanding. The real secret of philosophy has perhaps always been the joy of escaping into this wonderland and playing in it freely, a joy that has even tempted sensible men to give up their practical lives. The necessarily unphilosophical State has never been able to understand the temptation of a liberating joy as anything but disloyalty.
Corey Abel, review of Liberty, Individuality, and Democracy in Jorge Luis Borges by Alejandra Salinas (Lanham MD, Lexington Books: 2017), in Voegelinview.