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

Martin Heidegger

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
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
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
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
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
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
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
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
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

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