But what is great can only begin great.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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To dwell is to garden.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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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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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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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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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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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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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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Language is the house of Being.
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Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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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.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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