Only he who already understands can listen.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWhen 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.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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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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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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To dwell is to garden.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Only a god can save us.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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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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