Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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.
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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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Let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves.
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No historical movement can leap outside of history and start from scratch.
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To say philosophy originates in wonder means philosophy is wondrous in its essence and becomes more wondrous the more it becomes what it really is.
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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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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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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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As long as it is, Dasein always has understood itself and always will understand itself in terms of possibilities.
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Only a god can save us.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Nature has no history.
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The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
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