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Martin Heidegger

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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
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 human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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 religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
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 great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Ourselves Problem Reality Simplicity World
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand

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