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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.

Martin Heidegger

But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
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
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion

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