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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.

Martin Heidegger

Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
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
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
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
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy

We never come to thoughts. They come to us.

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