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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

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
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Beautiful Philosophy Truth
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
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
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
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
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death 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
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain

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