Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Nature has no history.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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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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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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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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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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