The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHe who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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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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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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