Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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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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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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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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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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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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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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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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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Only a god can save us.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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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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