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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.

Martin Heidegger

The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
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
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Greatness History Human Myself
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
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
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
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
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
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Change Ourselves Thinking
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word

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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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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