Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERPoetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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