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

Martin Heidegger

No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Philosophy Rich Truth
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man
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
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
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
Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Mental Source
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
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
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Act Language Man Philosophy
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
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Music Song
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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God Night Poet Sing Time World
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 possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man

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

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