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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

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Empty Oneself Philosophy
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
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
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
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
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
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness

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