The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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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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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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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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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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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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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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