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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.

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
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
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
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
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
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Greatness History Human Myself
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
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

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