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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Martin Heidegger

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.
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Philosophy Wonderful
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
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
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
How 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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Decision Night 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
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
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
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Divine God Spiritual

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