Nature has no history.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLanguage is the house of Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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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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Only he who already understands can listen.
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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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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 fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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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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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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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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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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