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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Martin Heidegger

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
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
We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Ourselves Problem Reality Simplicity World
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
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
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
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth

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