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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Martin Heidegger

We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Act Language Man Philosophy
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Divine God Spiritual
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
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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Appearance Philosophy Talk Time
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Art Experience Ourselves Truth World
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

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