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Martin Heidegger

A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
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
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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Philosophy Wonderful
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
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
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Divine God Spiritual
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Himself Listen Understand
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
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

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