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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.

Martin Heidegger

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
How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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Decision Night Philosophy
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
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
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
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
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
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
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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Beginning Reason Thinking
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
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
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

As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.

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