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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

Martin Heidegger

The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
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
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Reveal Technology
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
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Act Language Man Philosophy
When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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Appearance Philosophy Talk Time
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice 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
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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