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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.

Martin Heidegger

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
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
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Empty Oneself Philosophy
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
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
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
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

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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