The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERUnderstanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Everything has always already been said. And yet this “same” possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.
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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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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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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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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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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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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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