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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

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
Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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Animal Man Philosophy Thinking
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
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
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall

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