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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 fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
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
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Art Man Poet
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Acknowledgement Death Freedom Life Myself
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
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
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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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Beyond Change Human Love Measure Ourselves Possible Rich
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake 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
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
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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Beginning Reason Thinking
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
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

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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