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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

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
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
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
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
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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Beginning Reason Thinking

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