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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.

Martin Heidegger

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
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
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Art Experience Ourselves Truth World
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing

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