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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.

Martin Heidegger

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Greatness History Human Myself
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Rise Silence Word
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
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
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
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
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
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
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
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
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
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
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy

A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.

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