He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBeing 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.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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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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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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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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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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