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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

The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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Philosophy Wonderful
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
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
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
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
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

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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