Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLanguage is the house of Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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To dwell is to garden.
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Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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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