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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 meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
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
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
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
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
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
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Acknowledgement Death Freedom Life Myself

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