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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

Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
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
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
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
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
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
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
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
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
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
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Act Language Man Philosophy
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source

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