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

Martin Heidegger

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Beginning Reason Thinking
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
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
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
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
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
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
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Art Experience Ourselves Truth World
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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Man Philosophy Place See
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself

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