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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.

Martin Heidegger

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
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift 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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
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
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
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
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet

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