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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
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
Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Place Presence Technology Truth
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
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
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
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness

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