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Meditation: the steadfastness of the fact.
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Not “plight”—instead, the constancy of the decisiveness of the ineluctability of Da-sein.
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Actual questions—questions as process—are more powerful than answers. With the answer, Da-sein comes to a stop.
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Whenever thinking and the act of meditation fall into the superficiality of the everyday and into the snares of today’s measures and standards— the justification of any activity is without prospects. Then recollection must come as a call and must bring that excessive demand by which the thoughtful mode of Dasein is withdrawn into the most extreme solitude. The latter, like an unknown abundance, allows it to happen that only the rare and the few ask about the one.
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To question?—Very far outside and beyond the limits of the inessential and ordinary, to encounter the most proper essence—as the call to the struggle over the constancy of the great history of Da-sein.
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Science is the explanation of beings.*
Philosophy is the illumination of being.
Science must press forward into the Ever clearer as the familiar and commonplace.
Philosophy goes back into the concealed as the unintelligible and alien.
Science imparts true things (through correctness).
Philosophy elicits truth.
Science takes Da-sein as ground.
Philosophy is Da-sein.
The discourse of science is assertional.
The discourse of philosophy is probative and intimative.