We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERNothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Language is the house of Being.
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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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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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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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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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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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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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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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