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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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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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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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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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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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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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