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Martin Heidegger

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
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
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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Appearance Philosophy Talk Time
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
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Himself Listen Understand
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic

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