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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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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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Language speaks and not the human.
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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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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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To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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