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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

Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
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
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
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
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
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
Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Philosophy Rich Truth
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
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
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
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing

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