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 HEIDEGGERThe possible ranks higher than the actual.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Only a god can save us.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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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 great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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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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To dwell is to garden.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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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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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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