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“What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.”

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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger

German philosopher and a pioneer of existentialism, known for works such as 'Being and Time'. more

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