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

Martin Heidegger

Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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God Night Poet Sing Time World
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
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
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
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
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
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old

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