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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

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
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
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
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
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
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
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death 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
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking

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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