Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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 meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.
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Beauty is one way in which truth essentially occurs as unconcealment.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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Only a god can save us.
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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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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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Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.
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Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.
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The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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