I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERWe do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Language is the house of Being.
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Only a god can save us.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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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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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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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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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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