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

Martin Heidegger

Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Book Myself Reading Yourself
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Justice 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
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Philosophy Rich Truth
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
Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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Animal Man Philosophy 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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
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
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
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
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

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