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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

Martin Heidegger

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
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
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
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
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
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
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
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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Beautiful Beginning Myself
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
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
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness

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