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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.

Martin Heidegger

All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
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 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
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
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
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
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
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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Decision Night Philosophy

We never come to thoughts. They come to us.

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