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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

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
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 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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Ourselves Problem Reality Simplicity World
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
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
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
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 speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk

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