There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAs long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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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Only he who already understands can listen.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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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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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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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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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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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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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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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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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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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Nature has no history.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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