Only he who already understands can listen.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERTo say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Language is the house of Being.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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To dwell is to garden.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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If 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.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Language speaks and not the human.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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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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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Nature has no history.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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To 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.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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