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

Martin Heidegger

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Act Language Man Philosophy
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
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
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
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
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
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
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

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