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Martin Heidegger

The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
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
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old

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