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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.

Martin Heidegger

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Art Experience Ourselves Truth World
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
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
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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
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
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
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 questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
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
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Ourselves Problem Reality Simplicity World
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom

Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.

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