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.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTechnology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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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 human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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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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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 god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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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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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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