Only he who already understands can listen.
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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Language is the house of Being.
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We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.
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The great collapses, the small remains forever.
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The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.
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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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Nature has no history.
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Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.
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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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Only a god can save us.
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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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Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.
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The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.
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All questions that do justice to the subject are themselves bridges to their own answering.
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Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god’s withdrawal.
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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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