"Transcendence constitutes selfhood."
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"Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are."
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"The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being."
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"The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken."
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"Being is only Being for Dasein."
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"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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"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."
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"In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself."
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"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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"The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner."
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"We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak."
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"We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily."
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"We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil."
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"Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant."
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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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"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
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"To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky."
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"Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein."
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"Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this."
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"The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being."
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