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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.

Martin Heidegger

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 human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
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
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
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
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
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
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
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Ourselves Problem Reality Simplicity World
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

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