Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERExpelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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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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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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Only a god can save us.
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Nature has no history.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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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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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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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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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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