" In an interview for a BBC TV programme in 1999, Hans-Georg Gadamer recalled asking an old man in Messkirch if he had known Martin Heidegger as a boy. The man replied: ‘Martin? Yes, certainly I remember him.’ ‘What was he like?’ ‘Tscha [Well],’ answered the man, ‘What can I say? He was the smallest, he was the weakest, he was the most unruly, he was the most useless. But he was in command of all of us. "

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