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

Martin Heidegger

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
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
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
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
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
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
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
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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
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
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
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible

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