Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, translated by
John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, Harper hardcover, 1962, p. 262—
"…the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve
the force of the most elemental words…."
Heidegger was quoted, in a different translation, by Richard Rorty in 1998
in a review of Ein Meister aus Deutschland.
Related material: an August 18 death and this journal on that date—
"… it is impossible that there should be time if there is no soul,
except that there could be that X which time is…."
— Aristotle, Physics, IV.14, translated by Edward Hussey
See also Berlinerblau in this journal on August 10.