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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.

Martin Heidegger

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
As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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Animal Man Philosophy Thinking
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
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
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Philosophy Rich Truth
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
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
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
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
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
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

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