Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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.
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Only a god can save us.
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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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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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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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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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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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To dwell is to garden.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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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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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Nature has no history.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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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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