There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHe who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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To dwell is to garden.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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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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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Only a god can save us.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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