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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

Martin Heidegger

Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
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
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Art Experience Ourselves Truth World
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
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Place Presence Technology Truth
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
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
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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
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
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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

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