> In the text _The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, World, Finitude,
> Solitude_, Heidegger comments on the symbol of the circle with a dot in
> its center, long familiar since Aristotle as symbolizing the nous. He
> says there: "This circling movement of philosophy of couse is alien to
> ordinary understanding which only ever wants to get the job in hand
> over and done with as quickly as possible. But going round in circles
> gets us nowhere. Above all it makes us feel dizzy, ... as though we
> are suspended in the Nothing. ... The only thing that ordinary
> understanding can see in this circling motion is the movement around
> the periphery which always returns to its original point of departure
> on the periphery. Thus it misses the decisive issue here, which is an
> insight into the center of the circle as such, an insight made possible
> in such a circling motion and in it alone. For the center only
> manifests itself as such as we circle around it."
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> Solitude_, Heidegger comments on the symbol of the circle with a dot in
> its center, long familiar since Aristotle as symbolizing the nous. He
> says there: "This circling movement of philosophy of couse is alien to
> ordinary understanding which only ever wants to get the job in hand
> over and done with as quickly as possible. But going round in circles
> gets us nowhere. Above all it makes us feel dizzy, ... as though we
> are suspended in the Nothing. ... The only thing that ordinary
> understanding can see in this circling motion is the movement around
> the periphery which always returns to its original point of departure
> on the periphery. Thus it misses the decisive issue here, which is an
> insight into the center of the circle as such, an insight made possible
> in such a circling motion and in it alone. For the center only
> manifests itself as such as we circle around it."
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