"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."
-Martin Heidegger
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"But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.“
-Martin Heidegger
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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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"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."
-Martin Heidegger
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"Language is the house of the truth of Being."
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"To dwell is to garden."
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"The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility."
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
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