| Author Quoted | Harold John Blackham |
| Title Quoted | Six Existential Thinkers |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/01/03 |
| Imprint | London : Routledge. 1952I |
| Quotation | [Martin] Heidegger's notion that the realization and acceptance of death is the guarantee of authenticity in life and existence is very close to Rance and probably a better formulation of what Rance himself saw and wanted to say. It is in short a very monastic intuition. And I find much in the existentialists that is monastic. In any case, Heidegger is also fully Socratic - (his idea of "Nothing"). "Knowledge is in its very validity a form of untruth because it conceals the ignorance which it does not abolish." ([Harold John] Blackham, Six Existentialist Thinkers, [1959], p. 104) |
| Quotation Source | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 54 |
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