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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.

Martin Heidegger

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
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
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
No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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History Start
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift Thinking
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
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
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
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
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
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Born Death Man

Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.

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