Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHow should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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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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Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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