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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy
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"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy"

- Martin Heidegger

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Heidegger is recommending that if approach attempts too difficult to be quickly comprehended or accessible to everybody, it will lose its necessary nature and worth. Approach needs to challenge and provoke vital thinking, instead of attempting to be easily comprehended by a larger audience.

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Martin Heidegger This quote is written / told by Martin Heidegger between September 26, 1889 and May 26, 1976. He was a famous Philosopher from Germany. The author also have 29 other quotes.

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