Only he who already understands can listen.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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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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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Language is the house of Being.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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