Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROn this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Language is the house of Being.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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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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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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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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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Nature has no history.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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