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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

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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
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
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
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
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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God Night Poet Sing Time World
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking

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