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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

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
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
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
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
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
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
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Act Language Man Philosophy
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
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
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom

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