Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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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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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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 speaks and not the human.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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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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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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To dwell is to garden.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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