I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERExpelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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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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Nature has no history.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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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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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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