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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.

Martin Heidegger

As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
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
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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
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
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
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
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
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking

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