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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.

Martin Heidegger

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
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
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
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
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning 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
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Acknowledgement Death Freedom Life Myself
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
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
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand

A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.

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