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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEREveryone is the other and no one is himself.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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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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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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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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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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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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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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