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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.

Martin Heidegger

Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
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
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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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Man Philosophy Place See
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
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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Beautiful Beginning Myself

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