Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe never come to thoughts. They come to us.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd 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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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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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Nature has no history.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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To dwell is to garden.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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