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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.

Martin Heidegger

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
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Greatness History Human 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
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
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
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Change Ourselves Thinking
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Act Language Man Philosophy
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology

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