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

Martin Heidegger

Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
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
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
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
Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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Man Philosophy Place See
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
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

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