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Best Online German Dictionary Ever* →
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Zerstörte Zelle [1987]
Ich weiss nur wo ich weiterhin bleibe Weiss nur wo ich scheinbar immer war Ich weiss nur, dass ich noch hier bleibe Weiss nur, dass ich wohl immer hier war Zerstoerte Zelle Zerstoerte Zelle Sieh die Zellstruktur Sieh meine Zellstruktur Die zug um zug um zug zerfaellt Sieh meine Zellstruktur zerfallen Um zug um zug um zug Zerstoerte Zelle Zerstoerte Zelle Und auf einmal stelle ich fest: Dass...
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Excerpt - What Is Metaphysics? [1929]
The Elaboration of the Question
The elaboration of the question of the nothing must bring us to the point where an answer becomes possible or the impossibility of any answer becomes clear. The nothing is conceded. With a studied indifference science abandons it as what “there is not.”
All the same, we shall try to ask about the nothing. What is the...
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Excerpt -The World As Will And Representation...
He will recognize that same will not only in those phenomena that are quite similar to his own, in men and animals, as their innermost nature, but continued reflection will lead him to recognize the force that shoots and vegetates in the plant, indeed the force by which the crystal is formed, the force that turns the magnet to the North Pole, the force whose shock he encounters from the contact of...
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[Excerpt, Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft - 1882]
111.
Origin of the logical.- How did logic come into existence in man’s head? Certainly out of illogic, whose realm originally must have been immense. Innumerable beings who made inferences in a way different from ours perished; for all that, their ways might have been truer. Those, for example, who did not know how to find often...
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Also Sprach Zarathustra... →
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Terrible it is to be alone with the judge and avenger of one’s own law. Thus is a star thrown out into the void and into the icy breath of solitude. Today you are still suffering from the many, being one: today your courage and your hopes are still whole. But the time will come when solitude will make you weary, when your pride will double up, and your courage...
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I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire
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“The absurd has meaning in so far as it is not agreed to.”
– The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus (via isavoid) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“Man simply invented God in order not to kill himself, that is the summary of...”
– Dostoyevsky ”The Possessed” (1872) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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[Gesamtausgabe, Vol 21: Logik: Die Frage nach der...
“The basic achievement of speech consist[s] in showing or revealing that about which one is speaking, that concerning which there is discussion. In such revealing, the thing that is addressed is made manifest. It becomes perceivable, and, in discussion, the thing perceived gets defined.”
-Martin Heidegger