Only he who already understands can listen.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAs soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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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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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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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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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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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