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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.

Martin Heidegger

We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
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
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
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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Animal Man Philosophy Thinking
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
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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking

We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.

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