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

—  Martin Heidegger

Das Bedenklichste in unserer bedenklichen Zeit ist, dass wir noch nicht denken.
What is Called Thinking? [Was heisst Denken?] (1951–1952), as translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray (1968)

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Das Bedenklichste in unserer bedenklichen Zeit ist, dass wir noch nicht denken.

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