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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.

Martin Heidegger

Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
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
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
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
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
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
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
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
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
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
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself

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