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

Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
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
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
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
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
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
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
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.
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Animal Man Philosophy Thinking
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time

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