The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBeing 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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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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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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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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