We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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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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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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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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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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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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Nature has no history.
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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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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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