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How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?

Martin Heidegger

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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Beginning Reason Thinking
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Place Presence Technology Truth
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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Beautiful Beginning Myself
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy

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