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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.

Martin Heidegger

When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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Appearance Philosophy Talk Time
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Art Experience Ourselves Truth 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
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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
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
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
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
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
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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Decision Night Philosophy
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

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