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How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?

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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Beginning Reason Thinking
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
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
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
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
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
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
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Ourselves Problem Reality Simplicity World

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