How should the new day arrive, if the night is withheld from it and everything is suppressed into the twilight of decisionlessness?
MARTIN HEIDEGGERLanguage is the house of Being.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves.
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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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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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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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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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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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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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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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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