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Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.

— Martin Heidegger Nietzsche (1961)

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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.

Being and Time (1927)

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Letter on Humanism (1947)

Existential analytics [the object of the book] decides nothing about the existence of God, about human freedom and the immortality of the soul.

Being and Time (1927)

In Nietzsche’s view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.

Nietzsche (1961)

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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Martin Luther King Jr. Strength to Love (1963)

No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

Robert Heller The Decision makers (1989)

Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.

James Fitzjames Stephen Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Hermann Hesse Hermine in Steppenwolf (1927)

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