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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
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
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
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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Greatness History Human Myself
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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Decision Night Philosophy
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Himself Listen Understand
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy

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