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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLet himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Only a god can save us.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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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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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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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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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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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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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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