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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

The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Existence Logic
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
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
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
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
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
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
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
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking

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