Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Nature has no history.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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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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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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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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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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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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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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