Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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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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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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To dwell is to garden.
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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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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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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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