Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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 fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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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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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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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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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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Language is the house of Being.
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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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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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