Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

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Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

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Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

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