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

Martin Heidegger

Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
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 poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Art Experience Ourselves Truth World
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
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 meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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Philosophy Wonderful
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Change Ourselves Thinking
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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

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