Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLet himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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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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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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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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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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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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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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