We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHe who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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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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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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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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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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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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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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Language is the house of Being.
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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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