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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

Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
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
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
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
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
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
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
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet

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