Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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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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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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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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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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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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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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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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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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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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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 human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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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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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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