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In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.

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Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

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In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

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Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein.

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In its essence, technology is something that man does not control.

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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

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Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question.

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We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

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The German language 'speaks Being', while all the others merely 'speak of Being'.

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Enjoyment of the work consists in participation in the creative state of the artist.

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Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

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The word art does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.

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The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.

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We are too late for the gods and too
Early for the being. Being's a poem,
Just begun, is man.

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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

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Far from being, in fact, a commonplace event, death means our last opportunity, the core of our being.

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In contrast to Blessed are they who do not see and still believe, he speaks of seeing and still not believing.

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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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The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.

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A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

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Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

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Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

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Everywhere everything is ordered to stand by, to be immediately at hand, indeed to stand there just so that it may be on call for a further ordering.

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Questioning builds a way. We would be advised, therefore, above all to pay heed to the way, and not to fix our attention on isolated sentences and topics.

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We shall never experience our relationship to the essence of technology so long as we merely conceive and push forward the technological, put up with it, or evade it.

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In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.

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To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

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Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

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