"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."
"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."
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Source: 'Was heisst Denken?' ('What is Called Thinking?'). Book by Martin Heidegger, translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray, 1968.
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