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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 god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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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Decision Night Philosophy
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
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
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
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
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
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk

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