A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAs soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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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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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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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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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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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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To dwell is to garden.
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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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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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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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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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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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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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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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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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Nature has no history.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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