Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWhy are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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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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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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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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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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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 thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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To dwell is to garden.
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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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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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