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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 Heidegger

Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Act Language Man Philosophy
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
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
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
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
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
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
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language

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