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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

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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
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
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
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

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