We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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To dwell is to garden.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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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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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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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 thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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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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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 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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But what is great can only begin great.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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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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Language speaks and not the human.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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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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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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