He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAs soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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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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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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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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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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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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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Only a god can save us.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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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