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What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. and yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.
-Martin Heidegger
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What Seems Natural To Us Is Probably

Martin Heidegger
What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. and yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.
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