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

Martin Heidegger

Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
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 long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment

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