Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary … - Martin Heidegger

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We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Martin Heidegger

Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [. . . ] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.

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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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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.

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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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A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

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