No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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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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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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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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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Only a god can save us.
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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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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Language is the house of Being.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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To dwell is to garden.
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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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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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