Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThere is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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To dwell is to garden.
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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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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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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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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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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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