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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.

Martin Heidegger

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
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
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
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
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
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
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
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness

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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