The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLanguage is the house of Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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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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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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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.
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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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To dwell is to garden.
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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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