The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThinking 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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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Language is the house of Being.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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