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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.

Martin Heidegger

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
But what is great can only begin great.
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Beginning Greatness
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
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Human Philosophy
Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Religious Thinking
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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Greatness History Human Myself
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
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 great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
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 meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Oneself Solitude
Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Attraction Himself
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
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
The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Himself Thinking Wisdom
Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Distance Pain

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