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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.

Martin Heidegger

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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
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
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
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
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
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
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall

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