He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERMan acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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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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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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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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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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