Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBut what is great can only begin great.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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To dwell is to garden.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Nature has no history.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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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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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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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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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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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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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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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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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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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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