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

Martin Heidegger

Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
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
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
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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Change Ourselves Thinking
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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God Night Poet Sing Time World
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Greatness History Human Myself
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Philosophy Rich Truth
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk

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