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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.

Martin Heidegger

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
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Change Ourselves Thinking
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
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
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
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
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
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
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

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