There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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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Language speaks and not the human.
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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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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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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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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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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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To dwell is to garden.
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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 question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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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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