Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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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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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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