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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

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
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
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Art Experience Ourselves Truth World
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 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
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
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
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
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
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
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
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet

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