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but over “countryside” and “people,” and the wretchedness of these doings is even greater than before.



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Science: The sciences are quick to appeal to the rigor and invulnerability of their method when they sense, and want to conceal, the meagerness and shabbiness of the matter under consideration; whereas on the contrary the essentiality | of the matter creates for itself its method, yet at the same time does not allow that method independence but, instead, absorbs it into itself, so to speak, in such fashion that even the way, as belonging to the matter at issue, becomes essential.



164


Need to think forward in advance into the mission of the acceptance of greatness and so, in one, to plant the action back into the powers of what is incalculably ineluctable.

(Happening of being {Seinsgeschehnis}.)



165


The law of the essence (a) of the simple deep breadth of Dasein—being essentially occurs.

In the empowerment of the essence, have to leap over everything, whereupon we indeterminately strive to take everything in, whereby we think, confusedly enough, to liberate and bring to conveyance all that afflicts and compels us.

Harmony is to be made operative in such empowerment.



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Philosophy is to be grounded in itself of its own essence, not Da-sein on it; but indeed precisely in service to a grounding of humans out of beings and into them!



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Thinking and poetizing. (P. 121.)

Thinking is . . .

Such delimitation itself poetizes; for, what thinking is is nowhere to be found and picked up—instead, it opens itself only to the prescribing-configuring


Ponderings II-VI (GA 94) by Martin Heidegger