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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

All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
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
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
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
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 poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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Man Philosophy Place See
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
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time

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