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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Martin Heidegger

But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Existence God Human
We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Philosophy Thinking
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
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
Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Destroy God Logic Philosophy Religious
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
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
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
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Gift 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
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

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

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