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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

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
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
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
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
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
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
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
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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Animal Man Philosophy Thinking
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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Decision Night Philosophy
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
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Greatness History Human Myself
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom

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

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