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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.

Martin Heidegger

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
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
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
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
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
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
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Change Ourselves Thinking
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy

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