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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

Martin Heidegger

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
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
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
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
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
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
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

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