Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHe who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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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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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Language is the house of Being.
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