We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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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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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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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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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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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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