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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.

Martin Heidegger

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Greatness History Human Myself
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
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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Beginning Reason Thinking
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
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
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
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
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
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
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
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
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
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
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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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth

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