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

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
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake 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
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 thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
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

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