He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERThe question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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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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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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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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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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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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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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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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How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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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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