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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.

Martin Heidegger

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
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
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
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
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
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
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
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
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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Philosophy Rich Truth

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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