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Language is the house of Being.

Martin Heidegger

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
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
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
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
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
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
When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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Appearance Philosophy Talk Time
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time

Language is the house of Being.

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