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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.

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
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich
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
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Divine God Spiritual
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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Appearance Philosophy Talk Time
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
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death 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 god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
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

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