There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEREveryone is the other and no one is himself.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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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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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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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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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 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 great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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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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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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To dwell is to garden.
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