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.
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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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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We never come to thoughts. They come to us.
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Nature has no history.
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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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Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.
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Tell me how you read and I’ll tell you who you are.
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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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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
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We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.
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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
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The thinker only responded to what addressed itself to him.
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Everyone is the other and no one is himself.
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The divinity of the gods must first eventuate before a god appears and before the naming word, which names “the gods”, can be heard.
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