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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

Martin Heidegger

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
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
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
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
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence 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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
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.
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Animal Man Philosophy Thinking
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible

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