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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Martin Heidegger

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
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
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
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
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
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Philosophy Rich Truth
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness

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