Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEREvery man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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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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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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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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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 human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Nature has no history.
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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.
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