The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERQuestioning is the piety of thought.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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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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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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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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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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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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Language speaks and not the human.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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To dwell is to garden.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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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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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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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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