I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHe who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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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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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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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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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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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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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Nature has no history.
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Only a god can save us.
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