I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWhen we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Nature has no history.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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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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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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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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To dwell is to garden.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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