Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBeing 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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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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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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Only he who already understands can listen.
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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Only a god can save us.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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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 possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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To dwell is to garden.
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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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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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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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