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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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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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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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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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But what is great can only begin great.
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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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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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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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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Language is the house of Being.
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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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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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