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

Martin Heidegger

Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Ourselves Problem Reality Simplicity World
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
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
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
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
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
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
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
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

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