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Our elucidations of the preliminary concept of phenomenology show that its essential character does not consist in its actuality as a philosophical "movement." Higher than actuality stands possibility. We can understand phenomenology solely by seizing upon it as a possibility.

— Martin Heidegger Being and Time (1927)

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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.

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Language is the house of the truth of Being.

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

Nietzsche (1961)

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

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