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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

As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
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
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 are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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Appearance Philosophy Talk Time

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