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The great collapses, the small remains forever.

Martin Heidegger

But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Destiny God Important
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
How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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Decision Night Philosophy
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Creation Knowledge Man
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
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
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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Beginning Reason Thinking
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk

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