"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."

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Source : Martin Heidegger (1999). “Contributions to Philosophy: From Enowning”, p.307, Indiana University Press

Martin Heidegger

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“If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.”
“See yourself and weep. See your God and rejoice.”
“For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risk underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based.”

Source : "The Causes of World War Three". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1958.
“Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.”
“The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.”

Source : Bruce Jay Friedman (1978). “The Lonely Guy: And, The Slightly Older Guy”, p.33, Grove Press
“The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.”
“There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.”
“Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.”

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