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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTruth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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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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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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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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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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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Only a god can save us.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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