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

Martin Heidegger

Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Art Experience Ourselves Truth World
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
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
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
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
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
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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Man Philosophy Place See
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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
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
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
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
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
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
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
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
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
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Acknowledgement Death Freedom Life Myself

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