The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTo be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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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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There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
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Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.
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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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Only he who already understands can listen.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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To dwell is to garden.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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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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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 most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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Only a god can save us.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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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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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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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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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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