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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.

Martin Heidegger

Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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God Night Poet Sing Time World
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
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
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time

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