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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.

Martin Heidegger

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
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
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
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
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
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
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
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 human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
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
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
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy

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