Only he who already understands can listen.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERNo historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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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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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Only a god can save us.
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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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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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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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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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