The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe possible ranks higher than the actual.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Language is the house of Being.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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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 great collapses, the small remains forever.
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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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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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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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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 human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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To dwell is to garden.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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On this “way,” if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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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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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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