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Questioning is the piety of thought.

Martin Heidegger

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
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
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
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
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
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
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
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
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
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
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source

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