The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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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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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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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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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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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Nature has no history.
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Only a god can save us.
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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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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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