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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.

Martin Heidegger

On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
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
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
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
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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
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

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