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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROverman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Nature has no history.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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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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Language speaks and not the human.
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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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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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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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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Language is the house of Being.
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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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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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