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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.

Martin Heidegger

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
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
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
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
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
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
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice 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
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
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

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