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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Martin Heidegger

We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Ourselves Problem Reality Simplicity World
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Empty Oneself Philosophy
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
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
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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Philosophy Wonderful
Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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Animal Man Philosophy Thinking
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
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
Nature has no history.
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History Nature

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