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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHow 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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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Only a god can save us.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Language is the house of Being.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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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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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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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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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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