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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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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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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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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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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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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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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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 human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Nature has no history.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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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 thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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