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Questioning is the piety of thought.

Martin Heidegger

To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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Philosophy Wonderful
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being 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
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Art Experience Ourselves Truth World
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Empty Oneself Philosophy
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
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

Questioning is the piety of thought.

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