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How one encounters reality is a choice.

Martin Heidegger

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Martin Heidegger
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 26
Died: 1976
Died: May 26
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Meßkirch
Heidegger
Encounters
Choice
Choices
Reality

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Being is only Being for Dasein.
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Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
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We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.
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Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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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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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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Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
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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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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure anecdote.
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