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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.

Martin Heidegger

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
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
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Philosophy Rich Truth
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
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
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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

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