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The great collapses, the small remains forever.

Martin Heidegger

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
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death 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
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
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
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
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
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
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy

The great collapses, the small remains forever.

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