Language is the house of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGEROnly he who already understands can listen.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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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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Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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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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He who never says anything cannot keep silent at any given moment.
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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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.
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