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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.

Martin Heidegger

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
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
He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Himself Moment Silence Talk
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
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself
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
Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Different Existence Philosophy
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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Man Philosophy Place See
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

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