Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLanguage is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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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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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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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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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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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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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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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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