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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
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
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
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
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
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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
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
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
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
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall

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