The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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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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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Only a god can save us.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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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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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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