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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

Martin Heidegger

Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
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
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
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
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
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
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

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