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.
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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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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To dwell is to garden.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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When I spoke of “beauty”, I was thinking of Rilke’s notion that the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrible, and of Hölderlin’s idea that the beautiful can unite extreme opposites in intimacy.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Language is the house of Being.
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