Only In Those Moments When I Exercise

Only Then, Approaching My Fortieth Birthday, I Made Philosophy My Life's Work.

If Philosophy Is Practice, A Demand To Know The Manner In Which Its History Is To Be Studied Is Entailed: A Theoretical Attitude Toward It Becomes Real Only In The Living Appropriation Of Its Contents From The Texts.

The Socratic Teacher Turns His Students Away From Himself And Back Onto Themselves; He Hides In Paradoxes, Makes Himself Inaccessible. The Intimate Relationship Between Student And Teacher Here Is Not One Of Submission, But Of A Contest For Truth.

My Own Being Can Be Judged By The Depths I Reach In Making These Historical Origins My Own.

Everything Depends Therefore On Encountering Thought At Its Source. Such Thought Is The Reality Of Man's Being, Which Achieved Consciousness And Understanding Of Itself Through It.