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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

The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal 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
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Acknowledgement Death Freedom Life Myself
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start

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