As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLet himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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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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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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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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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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Only a god can save us.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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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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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Nature has no history.
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