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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Martin Heidegger

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
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
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Possible
Only he who already understands can listen.
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Himself Listen Understand
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Himself Mistake Thinking
As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Born Death Enough Old
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
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
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
A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Rise Silence Word
Nature has no history.
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History Nature
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Change Poet
Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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Philosophy Rich Truth
All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Justice Philosophy
Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Book Myself Reading Yourself

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