Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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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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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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