He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Language is the house of Being.
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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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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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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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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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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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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Only a god can save us.
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