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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.

Martin Heidegger

Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Act Language Man Philosophy
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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Empty Oneself Philosophy
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
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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Place Presence Technology Truth
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand

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