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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.

Martin Heidegger

Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being 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
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
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
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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Divine God Spiritual
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude

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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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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