Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERAll the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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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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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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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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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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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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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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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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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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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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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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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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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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To dwell is to garden.
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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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Questioning is the piety of thought.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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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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Mere anxiety is the source of everything.
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