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Martin Heidegger Quotes

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

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

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

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

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…

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Shadow

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I fall in the dark,
I wish I was there with you.

You..
You’re probably sleeping, I wish I was sleeping to.
Next to you. Wherever you are.
I wish you’d fall back into my arms.

And I..
I left the whole room.
Just the way it used to be.

With the pictures plastered higher than the ceiling.
Trying to keep the feeling alive by trapping it inside.

Because your shadow is haunting me.
And your shadow is all I see,
Your shadow is haunting me.
Why won’t you..
Let me be.

Because I’ll never have you.
Wherever you are.
I wish you’d fall back into my arms.

And you..
Wherever you are.
You know that we.. We can’t be that far.

Can’t be that far.
You and me.
We can’t be that far.

 

– Jonathan Clay –

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