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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 Heidegger

The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
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 great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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
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
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
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
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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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

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.

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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.

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