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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

The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
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
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
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
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
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence 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
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
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
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
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
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
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

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