"When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote"
"The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness."
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Source: Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 edited by James Carl Klagge and Alfred Nordmann, Ch. 9, (p. 165), 1993.
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