We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERIf 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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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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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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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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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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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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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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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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