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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Martin Heidegger

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
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
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 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
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
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
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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

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