The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERIf 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.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Only a god can save us.
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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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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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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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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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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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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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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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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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