The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGERMan 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.
More Martin Heidegger Quotes
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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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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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Poetically dwells man upon this earth.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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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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Nature has no history.
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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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Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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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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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Language is the house of Being.
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