As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAs long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBut what is great can only begin great.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe never come to thoughts. They come to us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERNothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROur thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERMan 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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBeing 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 HEIDEGGERLanguage is the house of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERHe who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERPoetically dwells man upon this earth.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER