The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTo say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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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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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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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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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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