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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.

Martin Heidegger

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
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
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
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 possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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
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
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
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

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