Only he who already understands can listen.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLet himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Language speaks and not the human.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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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 meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Language is the house of Being.
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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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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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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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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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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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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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