Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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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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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Only a god can save us.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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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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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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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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