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The most fundamental thing we fail to appreciate about the world, Heidegger asserts in his magnum opus, Being and Time, is how bafflingly astonishing it is that it’s there at all—the fact that there is anything rather than nothing.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
The gap between how the initiated express their ideological beliefs and how everyone else does seems larger than ever.
A Nation Divided by Language
theatlantic.com
We may be powerless to alter certain events, but we remain free to choose our attitude towards them, and it is in our spontaneous acceptance of necessity that we find our distinctive freedom.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
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