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

Martin Heidegger

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
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
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
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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Decision Night Philosophy
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
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
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
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
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
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

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