Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.
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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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing.
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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Because it is more essential, and older, the destiny of Being is less familiar than the lack of God.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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