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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

Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
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
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Divine God Spiritual
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift 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
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Home Language Man
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
Nature has no history.
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History Nature

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