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I suppose my greatest disappointment has been realizing my father, like Joseph and Brigham before him, tried to shroud his passions in the mantle of religion. He used God to defend his adultery. --- Ann Eliza Young, page 253 ↗

— David Ebershoff

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To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

— Martin Heidegger

#fact #in fact #language #man #master

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

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Only a god can save us. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#only #save #us

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

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I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

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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. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

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