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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Martin Heidegger

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Human Philosophy Spiritual
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
When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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Beautiful Beginning Myself
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
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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Philosophy Wonderful
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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Beginning Reason Thinking
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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Appearance Philosophy Talk Time
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
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
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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Philosophy Rich Truth

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