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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.

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
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 Philosophy Place See
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Ourselves Problem Reality Simplicity World
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
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
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
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
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking

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