Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBut what is great can only begin great.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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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.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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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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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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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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