" In anxiety, the world shows itself to me as something ‘uncanny’ — the German word unheimlich here literally meaning ‘not homely’. It reveals ‘the total strangeness of beings’. In this unhomely, unfamiliar moment, the mood of anxiety opens up the first questioning movement of philosophy — particularly that big question, which forms the climax of Heidegger’s lecture: ‘Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? "

― Sarah Bakewell , At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails