Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
MARTIN HEIDEGGERPoetically dwells man upon this earth.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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To dwell is to garden.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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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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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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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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To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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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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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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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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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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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