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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

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
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
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 song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain

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