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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Martin Heidegger

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Clear People Strong Truth
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
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
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
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
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Determination Understand
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Death Man Moment
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

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