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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Martin Heidegger

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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Appearance Philosophy Talk Time
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
All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Poem Poet Writing
The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Age Fundamental Photograph World
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
Language speaks and not the human.
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Human Language Talk
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
To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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Philosophy Wonderful
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
Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Animal Being Truth
The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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God Past Religion
The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Human Philosophy Spiritual
Only a god can save us.
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God One Liner Save
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Philosophy Thinking Time
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 great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Forever Greatness
Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Be Yourself Himself Philosophy
Language is the house of Being.
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Home Human Language
Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Moments Philosophy
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Death Philosophy
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Empty Oneself Philosophy
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
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
On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Failure Fall
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
The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Existence Philosophy

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