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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.

Martin Heidegger

How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Decision Night 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
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
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
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
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

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