When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThere is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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To dwell is to garden.
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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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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Only a god can save us.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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Nature has no history.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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