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.
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 possible ranks higher than the actual.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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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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Language is the house of Being.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Only a god can save us.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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