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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERMere anxiety is the source of everything.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Only a god can save us.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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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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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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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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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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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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Language is the house of Being.
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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 meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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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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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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