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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.

Martin Heidegger

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
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
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Divine God Spiritual
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
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Change Ourselves Thinking
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
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World

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