Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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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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Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Only a god can save 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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