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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.

Martin Heidegger

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

Acknowledgement Death Freedom Life Myself
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
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
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
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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Philosophy Wonderful
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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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Greatness History Human Myself
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Divine God Spiritual
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
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
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Act Language Man Philosophy
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination 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

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