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How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?

Martin Heidegger

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
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
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
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
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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
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
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
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself 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
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
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
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic

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