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Language is the house of Being.

Martin Heidegger

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
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
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
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
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
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
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
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth

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