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.
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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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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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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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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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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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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