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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 thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
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
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
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
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
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
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
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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God Night Poet Sing Time World
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 god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology

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