Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAs soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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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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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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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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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Nature has no history.
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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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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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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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But what is great can only begin great.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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