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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Martin Heidegger

The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
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 meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
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
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
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
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
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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God Night Poet Sing Time World
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
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness

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