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 HEIDEGGERAs long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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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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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Nature has no history.
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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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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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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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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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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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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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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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