Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Nature has no history.
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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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To dwell is to garden.
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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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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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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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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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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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