We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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 most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
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The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as a picture.
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Only he who already understands can listen.
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When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.
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The god wholly other than past ones and especially other than the Christian one.
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A resounding of the authentic word can arise only from silence.
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Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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Being 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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As soon as we are born, we are old enough to die.
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Only within metaphysics does logic exist.
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But what is great can only begin great.
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
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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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