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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Martin Heidegger

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
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
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Place Presence Technology Truth
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
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
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
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
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
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
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Divine God Spiritual
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
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
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
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
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
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word

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