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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

Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
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
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
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
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
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 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
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
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
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song

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