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

Martin Heidegger

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
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
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
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
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
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
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
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking 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

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