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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

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
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
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
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
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
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
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
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
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
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
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
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
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man

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