Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLet himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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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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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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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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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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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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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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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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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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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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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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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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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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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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