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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.

Martin Heidegger

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
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
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
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
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
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
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
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
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start

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