8 July

Born in 1867 – Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor.

Above: Whetting the Scythe, 1908

Also, born in 1885 German utopian philosopher and academic, Ernst Bloch.

Evil does not approach us as pride any more, but on the contrary as slumber, lassitude, concealment of the "I." … It may make us so quickly contented, that any definitive fire will die down. The venomous, breathtaking frigid mist seems able to harden hearts and fill them with envy, obduracy and resentment, with bloody scorn for the divine image and light, with all the causes of the only true original sin, which is not wanting to be like God.