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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.

Martin Heidegger

He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
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
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
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
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Empty Oneself Philosophy
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
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
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

We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.

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