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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.

Martin Heidegger

The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
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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Acknowledgement Death Freedom Life Myself
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Change Ourselves Thinking
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
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
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
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom

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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