The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTruth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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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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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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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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Nature has no history.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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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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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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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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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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