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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

We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Existence God Human
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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Beautiful Beginning Myself
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
Questioning is the piety of thought.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Religious Thinking
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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Philosophy Wonderful
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
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
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
Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich

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