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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.

Martin Heidegger

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
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
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
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
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
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
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
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
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
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

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