We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERBeing 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.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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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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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Nothing is everything that doesn’t happen at this very moment.
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