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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.

Martin Heidegger

To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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Philosophy Wonderful
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
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
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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Philosophy Rich Truth
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
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
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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
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
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual

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