Thinking (n.) is a deed. But a deed that also surpasses all praxis. Thinking towers above action and production, not through the grandeur of its achievement and not as a consequence of its effect, but through the humbleness of its inconsequential accomplishment.
Thinking (n.) is conducted upon the ground rule that we must think about 'something'.
Thinking (n.) is grounded in the rule that contradiction must be avoided. But how then can we go about 'tampering with the rule of 'logic'''.
Thinking (n.) is moving towards what is not known and cannot be said.
Thinking (n.) is not at all a representational activity. It transports the thinker, When, say, we are thinking of a bridge, it is not a mere experience inside our head... rather, it belongs to the nature of our thinking of that bridge that thinking in itself gets through, persist through, the distance to that location. From this spot right here, we are there at the bridge-- we are by no means at some representational content in our consciousness. From right here we may even be much nearer to that
Thinking (n.) is not so much an act as a way of living or dwelling a way of life.
Thinking (n.) is so difficult and rare because the thing itself that must be thought about turns away from man.
Thinking (n.) is that which we do not have say straight out what it is... we only need to let ourselves become involved in the question and we are already thinking.
Thinking (n.) is that which, were we to have to describe it straight out, would bring us much embarrassment. But luckily, we do not have to say, we only are supposed to let ourselves become involved in the question.
Thinking (n.) is the loyal hearing to being's mysterious call.
Thinking (n.) must concern itself with this interplay of shadow and light.
Thinking (n.) is something we are still not doing and have never done since the dawn of history, foreclosed as it is by the being, which always conceals itself.
Thinking (n.) is a kind of thanking, for being was a gift, given to humans, not created by them (we are the shepherds of being, not its lords). Hence thinking is also a kind of thanking.
Thinking (n.) is not just giving us concepts and representations; it changes our very relation to being.
Thinking (n.) is something we learn to do only by thinking, just as we learn to swim only by swimming.
Thinking (n.) is letting things be, not reducing them to concepts or representations - as science, logic, and technology do.
Thinking (n.) is today, mere calculation, efficiency, a kind of jumping from one opportunity to the next in a way that it never becomes reflective.
Thinking (n.) is not the act of a subjective consciousness positing various representations of an object-world, but a non-assertive tracing out of the measure and manner of the realm of un-concealment in which it already moves.
Thinking (n.) is not a matter of ‘grasping’, ‘securing’, ‘making certain’, and ‘mastering’ but of ‘following’, ‘hearkening’, ‘hinting’, and ‘being guided’.
Thinking (n.) is not a reductionist process of closing in on a series of tightly secured separate items, but rather the opening out, non-appropriatively, to the holistic ‘world’ presupposed but not recognized by the analytic stance.