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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.

Martin Heidegger

The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
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
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Art Experience Ourselves Truth 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
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
To dwell is to garden.
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Garden One Liner
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
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
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
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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Animal Man Philosophy Thinking
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Possible Understand
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
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

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